Position in chronology
Anonymous 315390
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P315390.
Transliteration
2(barig) ninda du giri3-se3-ga [...] sza3 [...] u4 a NE [...] na# [...] ezem x-x [...] x lugal x ba [...] [...]-szi-ir [...] szu x x x x x x x zi-ga mu szu-[suen lugal] uri5-ma#-ke4# ma2-gur8-mah en-lil2 nin-lil2-ra mu-ne-dim2 e-la-nu-id? dub-sar dumu be#-li2-dan#
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Anonymous 315390. 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: private: anonymous, unlocated (P315390) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P315390..
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