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Image: This cuneiform text gives the city of Umma's account of its long-running border dispute with Lagash. Circa 2350 BCE. From Umma, Iraq. The British Museum, London

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Description: This cuneiform text on this vessel gives the city of Umma's account of its long-running border dispute with Lagash. It reads "This is the boundary according to monument of (the god) Shara". Early Dynastic Period III, circa 2350 BCE. From Umma, Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. The British Museum, London.
Title: This cuneiform text gives the city of Umma's account of its long-running border dispute with Lagash. Circa 2350 BCE. From Umma, Iraq. The British Museum, London
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