SANTAG 6, 013

~2072 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P212200

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P212200.

Why it matters

Transliteration

5(u) 2(disz) u8
1(u) 1(disz) udu-nita2
2(u) la2 1(disz) ud5
1(u) 2(disz) masz2
2(disz) sila4 ga
sze-ta sa10-a
ki lu2-en-lil2-la2-ta
ur-utu i3-dab5
kiszib3 usz-mu
mu si-mu-ru-um ba-hul
usz-mu
dub-sar
dumu lugal-sa6-[ga]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SANTAG 6, 013. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y23 — Simurrum destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation (P212200) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P212200..

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The earliest historical document in human history.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.