Position in chronology
CUSAS 03, 0166
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322561.
Transliteration
1(u) gurusz [n] geme2 ugula me-[e2]-a munu4 nag4-ga2#-de3 a-da-lal3 i3-dab5 iti ezem-szul-gi mu szu-suen lugal-e [ma]-da za-ab-sza-li mu#-hul
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 0166. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y6 — Land of Zabšali destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: CUNES 48-04-048 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Garšana (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P322561). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322561..
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