CUSAS 03, 1156

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P322524

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322524.

Transliteration

1(u) 5(disz) [...]
ki i3-li2-bi-[la]-ni-ta ba-zi#
iti ses-da-gu7
mu szu-suen lugal uri5#[-ma]-ke4# ma2-gur8-[mah ...]
szu-kab2-ta a-zu
dumu na-ra-am-i3-li2
iszkur-illat
dub-sar
dumu a-bi2-a ARAD2-zu

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 1156. 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 48-04-010 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Garšana (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P322524). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322524..

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