Position in chronology
AAICAB 1/3, pl. 203, Bod B 07 (114)
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
Transliteration
3(asz) 1(barig) sze gur sza3-gal udu niga-sze3 ki ur#-x-x-ta lugal#-sza3#-la2 sipa szu# ba-ti sza3 du6-sa-bar iti ezem-szul-gi mu us2-sa bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 lugal-sza3-la2 dumu dingir-szu# sipa#
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/3, pl. 203, Bod B 07 (114). No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y38 — Year after: The Amorite wall was built based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P249027) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249027..
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