NATN 483

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P121181

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P121181.

Transliteration

[x] ha-bu3-da
kiszib3 lu2-inanna
ki lu2-kal-la
i3-gal2-la
tum3-dam
zi-re-dam
mu szu-suen
lugal-e ma2-gur8-mah# en-lil2 nin-[lil2-ra] mu#-ne-du8
lu2-kal-la
dub-sar
dumu giri3-ni

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN 483. 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: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P121181) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P121181..

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