MVN 01, 084

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P113117

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P113117.

Transliteration

BI x [...]
[...] GAN2 2(asz) [...]
szunigin 1(esze3) 4(iku) [GAN2 ...]
sze-bi [... gur]
szunigin 2(bur3) [... GAN2 ...]
sze#?-[bi ... gur]
[...]
3(bur3) GAN2 bala-a 1(asz) 2(ban2)-ta
a-sza3 ar-sza-ti-a-nin-dar-a
1(bur'u) 4(bur3) 2(esze3) 5(iku) GAN2 1(asz) 2(barig) 3(ban2)-ta
1(bur3) GAN2 bala-a 1(iku)-ta 1(esze3) 4(bur3) GAN2 ki-gu2#?
a-sza3 ar-[mu-na-du?]
szunigin 4(gesz2) 4(u) 7(asz) 5(ban2) 6(disz) sila3 gur
sza3-bi-ta

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — MVN 01, 084. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Museum Forum der Völker (Völkerkundemuseum der Franziskaner), Werl, Germany (P113117) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P113117..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.