Position in chronology
MVN 11, 196
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P116209.
Transliteration
1(disz) suhub2 du8-szi-a e2-ba-an-ta szu-esz18-dar 1(disz) hu-un-szul-gi ki ta2-hi-isz-a-tal-ta ba-zi sza3 puzur4-isz-da-gan iti ezem-szu-suen mu us2-sa szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-ke4 bad3 mar-tu mu-ri-iq-ti-id#-[ni]-im mu-du3 2(disz)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — MVN 11, 196. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y2 — Year after: Šu-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P116209) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P116209..
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