NATN 378

~2041 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P121076

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P121076.

Transliteration

1(szar2) 4(gesz'u) 5(gesz2) 3(u) 4(disz) sig4
ugula ur-nin-urta
4(gesz'u) 7(gesz2) 1(u) sig4
ugula lugal-inim-gi-na
usz-bi 5(u) 5(disz) ninda
1(u) 8(disz) geme2 usz-bar! du-du sza3 e2
ugula lugal-KU
e2 aga3-us2? ki kiri6 nin-lil2-la2
iti kin-inanna
u4 2(u) zal-la
mu sza-asz-ru ba-hul-a

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN 378. 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: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P121076) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P121076..

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