Position in chronology
Ontario 2, 030
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209500.
Transliteration
4(asz) sze gur lugal sza3-gal kunga2 e2-kikken-ta ki ARAD2-ta lu2-banda3 szu ba-ti iti min-esz3 mu sza-asz-ru ba-hul lu2-banda3 mu6-sub3!(GU4) szara2 dumu gigir-re
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Ontario 2, 030. 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: Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P209500) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209500..
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