Position in chronology
SACT 2, 244
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P129201.
Transliteration
4(disz) ad3-ad3 udu sa2-du11 szara2 mu-kux(DU) kiszib3 gu-du-du giri3 ka-ku3 iti nesag mu szu-suen lugal uri5-ma-ke4 e2 szara2 umma mu-du3 szu-suen lugal kal-ga lugal uri5-ma lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba gu-du-du dub-sar dumu da-da-[ga] ARAD2-zu
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 2, 244. 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 (P129201) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P129201..
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