BSOAS 62, 116

~3100 BCE·Uruk Period·P005402

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The birth of the city, the birth of writing.

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MSVO 3, 80

“(Column/Line 1) 1(N14) 3(N01) , [broken sign] (Line 2) 1(N14) 1(N01) [......] , [......] (Line 3) 1(N14) [....…”

P005387 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 3, 76

“(Case 1) [...] , [...] X (Case 2) 2(N14) , EN (lord/high official) — SZAGAN — SZE (barley) — SI (Case 3) , KAL…”

P005385 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 3, 74

“1(N14) [...] , [...] x 6(N14) , GU (flax/rope?) NA (unclear sign), great, temple-administrator, temple-adminis…”

P005384 · ~3100 BCE

MSVO 3, 73

“1(N14) [units]: barley — (the) byre — NIN (lady/mistress) 2(N14) [units]: barley — horn — TUN3 — 3(N57) [units…”

Transliteration

1(N49) 1(N19) ,
8(N14) 4(N01) , SZE~a#
, |SZU&SZU| APIN~a#
1(N49) 9(N14) 4(N01) , GISZ?

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — BSOAS 62, 116. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P005402) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P005402..

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