Position in chronology
SACT 1, 049
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128804.
Transliteration
1(disz) amar masz-da3-munus u4 4(disz)-kam ki in-ta-e3-a-ta ur-ku3-nun-na i3-dab5 iti masz-da3-gu7 mu szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-ke4 e2 szara2 umma-ka mu-du3 du11-ga dub-sar dumu lu2-nin-gir2-su sipa na-gab2-tum
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 1, 049. 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: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (P128804) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128804..
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