Position in chronology
En-anatum I 17
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) When En-ana-tum, ruler of Lagaš, chosen by Nanše in the heart, the child born to Lugal-Uruba, the child of Aya-kurgal, ruler of Lagaš, built the Ebgal for Inana, made the E-ana exceed all the mountains, and decorated it with gold and silver, then his servant, Id-lusikil, his personal quarters’ scribe, fashioned (this) inscribed clay nail for himself.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001084/
Why it matters
A scribe named Id-lusikil records his own act of dedication within En-anatum I's temple-building inscription — one of the earliest named scribes to insert himself into a royal monument.
Transliteration
Scholarly note
Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q001084.
Attribution
Image: OIM A03604 (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA) — from Girsu (mod. Tello) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P222495). source
Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001084/.
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