Position in chronology
AO 08115
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
A bureaucratic golden age, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
From the same catalogue range (near P492893)
Transliteration
4(u) 5(asz) 4(barig) 2(ban2) sze bappir2 gur lugal zi-ga sza3 du10-gan-na giri3 kas4-ke4-ne mu lu2-nin-gir2-su GA2-dub-ba-ke4 im-ta szu ib2-ta-ur3-ra-sze3 du10-gan-ba? a-ga dumu lugal-im-ru-a-ke4 nam-erim2 bi2-in-ku5 giri3 ba-zi dumu szesz-szesz x ur-e2-ninnu dumu x x [...] x [...] dumu lugal-im-ru-a ur-sa6-ga-mu dumu ku-li maszkim zi-ga mu bad3 ma-da ba-du3
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AO 08115. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y30 — The frontier wall was built based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P492893) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P492893..
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