AAICAB 1/1, pl. 025, 1911-191

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P142703

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P142703.

Transliteration

[...] lu2#-dingir-ra
gudu4 nun-gal-ke4
1(u) ma-na zabar uruda
sza3
iti ezem-szul-gi-ra-ka
un-su
e2 pa-bil-sag-ka
kux(KWU636)#-kux(KWU636)-da
mu# lugal-bi
in-pa3
mu szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-ke4 ma2-gur8 en-lil2 nin-lil2#-ra mu-ne-[dim2]
lu2-dingir-ra
dumu ur-sa6-ga
gudu4 nun-gal

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/1, pl. 025, 1911-191. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y1 — Šu-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P142703) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P142703..

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