AAICAB 1/1, pl. 056, 1923-429

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P142797

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P142797.

Transliteration

2(disz) geme2 [...]
a2 x x
mu bala-a-sze3 x da x
ki lu2-[...]
kiszib3 gu-du-du#
mu szu-suen# lugal-e ma-<da> za-ab-sza-li[] ba-hul#
inim-[...]
dub-sar
dumu da-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/1, pl. 056, 1923-429. 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 (P142797) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P142797..

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