Position in chronology
SACT 1, 120
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128875.
Transliteration
1(disz) kusz gu4 1(disz) sa gu4 1(disz) kun gu4 lu2-i3-zu engar kiszib3 lu2-dingir-ra mu us2-sa szu-suen lugal-e bad3 mar-tu mu-du3 lu2-dingir-ra# dub-sar# dumu lugal-e2#-mah-e
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 1, 120. 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: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (P128875) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128875..
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