CUSAS 03, 0391

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P322562

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322562.

Transliteration

[n] sila3# nig2-ar3-ra# [saga?]
erin2#?-sze3
lu2 e2-szu-suen-ke4-ne
ba-na-ha-la
u4 [e2]-e [im-sumur ba-ak]
[...]
[ki] iszkur-illat#-[ta]
ba-zi
iti ki-siki nin-a-zu
mu szu-suen# [lugal]-uri5#-[ma]-ke4 [na-ru2-a-mah en]-lil2 [nin-lil2-ra mu-ne-du3]
gaba-ri

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 0391. 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: Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (P322562) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322562..

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