HSS 68, 331

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P407261

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P407261.

Transliteration

[...]
la2-ia3 nig2-ka9-ak#
ki esz18-dar-al-[szu-ta]
kiszib3 nanna#-kam
giri3 i-din-[...]
u3 szu-suen#-ha-ma-[ti]
iti ezem-me-ki-[gal2]
mu szu-suen lugal

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HSS 68, 331. 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: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P407261) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P407261..

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