Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~2050 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Wellcome M0005812

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·North

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial
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Editorial entry — translation cited from: Wikimedia Commons file: File:Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Wellcome M0005812.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASumerian_Cuneifurm_Tablet._Wellcome_M0005812.jpg. Description: Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Concerning a consignment of North Syrian cedar-wood (evidently imported from Lebanon) to be used in ship building. Dated: "year after the land of Urbillu was devastated", i.e. 49th year of King Shulgi, IIIrd Dynas

Scholarly note

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Concerning a consignment of North Syrian cedar-wood (evidently imported from Lebanon) to be used in ship building. Dated: "year after the land of Urbillu was devastated", i.

Attribution

Image: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/0c/58/c6fce7e4b39de20f78dde385775b.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0005812.html Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-03): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/djr7zy6u CC-BY-4.0 — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Wellcome M0005812.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASumerian_Cuneifurm_Tablet._Wellcome_M0005812.jpg. Description: Sumerian Cuneifurm Tablet. Concerning a consignment of North Syrian cedar-wood (evidently imported from Lebanon) to be used in ship building. Dated: "year after the land of Urbillu was devastated", i.e. 49th year of King Shulgi, IIIrd Dynas.

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