Position in chronology
HSS 04, 137
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110410.
Transliteration
nu-banda3 ur-x-[x] iti ezem-li9#-[si4] mu us2-sa szu-suen lugal-e bad3 mar-tu mu-ri-iq-ti-id-ni-im mu-du3 mu us2-sa-a-bi
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HSS 04, 137. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y6 — Year after: Šu-Suen built the Amorite wall Muriq-Tidnim based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P110410) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110410..
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