Position in chronology
HSS 68, 162
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P407058.
Transliteration
1(disz) sila4 ki ab-ba-sa6-ga-ta ur-en-gal-du-<du> i3-dab5 giri3 lu2-sza-lim iti masz-da3-gu7 mu us2-sa sza-asz-ru ba-hul ur-suen szakkan6 |BAD3.AN| nu-banda3
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HSS 68, 162. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y7 — Year after: Šašru destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P407058) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P407058..
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