Position in chronology
HLC 219 (pl. 108)
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110093.
Transliteration
1(asz) dabin gur lugal ki lu2-nin-szubur-ta mu lu2-ba-ba6# kiszib3 lugal-gigir-re szesz-na giri3 lu2-ba-ba6# iti# ezem-ba-ba6 mu sza-asz-ru ba-hul lu2-x-x dub-sar# dumu x-x-x
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HLC 219 (pl. 108). No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y6 — Šašru destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P110093) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110093..
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