Position in chronology
CUSAS 03, 1154
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322424.
Transliteration
1(disz) gukkal 3(disz) |U8+HUL2|? 4(disz) sila4 gukkal 2(disz) kir11 gukkal 2(disz) masz2-gal 3(disz) ud5 iti u4 1(u) 5(disz) ba-zal ki iszkur-illat-ta i3-li2-bi-la-ni i3#-dab5 iti masz2-da3-gu7 mu ma2-gur8-mah en-lil2 nin-lil2-ra mu-ne-dim2 i3-li2-bi-la-ni ARAD2 szu-kab-ta
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 1154. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y8 — The great barge for Enlil and Ninlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: CUNES 48-02-022 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Garšana (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P322424). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322424..
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