DP 151

~2400 BCE·Early Dynastic·P220801

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P220801.

Transliteration

szu-nigin2 1(gesz2@c) 7(asz@c) la2 2(ban2@c) gur saggal
sze-ba lu2 szuku dab5-ba-ne
3(u@c) la2 1(asz@c) 1(barig@c) 2(ban2@c) sze-ba il2 igi-nu-du8 gesz-kin-ti sza3-dub didli
4(u@c) 2(asz@c) 1(barig@c) 2(ban2@c) sze gar sa2-du11 bar-bi gal2
gu2-an-sze3 2(gesz2@c) 2(u@c) la2 2(asz@c) 2(ban2@c) sze gur saggal
sze-ba sze gar e2 ba-ba6-ka
guru7 e2 ba-ba6-ke4 us2-sa-ta
en-szu-gi4-gi4
agrig-ge
e-ne-ba
sa6-sa6
dam URU-KA-gi-na
lugal
lagasz-ka 6(|ASZxDISZ@t|)
8(disz@t) ba-am6

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — DP 151. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Louvre Museum, Paris, France (P220801) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P220801..

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