SACT 1, 194

~2059 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P128949

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128949.

Transliteration

7(gesz2) 5(asz) 3(barig) 3(disz) sila3 sze gur lugal
sza3-gal gu4 udu masz ansze szah2 u3 muszen
ki-a tak4?-a
ur-li9-si4 ensi2 umma-ka#?-x
in-[...]
iti a2-ki-ti
bala ur-li9-si4 ensi2 umma
mu us2-sa an-sza-an ba-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 1, 194. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y36 — Year after: Anšan destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (P128949) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128949..

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.

~2050 BCE

Drehem Cattle-Distribution Tablet

A window into the world's first total state. The Ur III administration tracked every animal, every worker, every shekel — for a population in the millions. The level of paperwork was not exceeded until the modern era.

~3300 BCE

AoF 30, 238,1