CUSAS 03, 0710

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P323229

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P323229.

Transliteration

1(u) 2(disz) gin2 siki garigx(|ZUM.SI|) ak 4(disz)-kam us2
2/3(disz) ma-na siki garigx(|ZUM.SI|) ak du
[ki asz]-ta2-qar-ta
[ta2-di-na] tug2-[du8]
[szu] ba#-ti#
[iti] ses-da-gu7
mu szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-ke4 e2-[]szara2 umma-ka mu-du3
ta-di2-na
tug2-du8

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 0710. 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: CUNES 49-02-006 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Garšana (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P323229). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P323229..

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