Position in chronology
CUSAS 03, 0843
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322546.
Transliteration
1(disz) kusz sila4 kusz udu usz2 ki iszkur-illat-ta a-na-ah-i3-li2 aszgab szu ba-an-ti [iti] a2-ki-ti mu# szu-suen lugal#-e na#-ru2#-[a]-mah# en-lil2 nin-lil2-ra mu-ne-du3
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 0843. 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 48-04-033 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Garšana (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P322546). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322546..
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