Position in chronology
AUCT 1, 077
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P102923.
Transliteration
4(asz) sze gur sze ur5-ra masz2 se-ge4 ki lu2-du10-ga-ta nar-nita2 szara2-ke4 szu ba-ab-ti mu# [...]-NE#-sze3 kiszib3# [x]-x dumu du10-ga-mu-ka ib2-ra [iti] dumu-zi mu szu-suen lugal
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AUCT 1, 077. 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: Siegfried H. Horn Museum, Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA (P102923) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P102923..
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