Position in chronology
SACT 1, 108
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128863.
Transliteration
1(disz) sila4-nita2 kur-ra ba-usz2 ki ur-ru-ta kiszib3 lu2-kal-la iti sze-sag11-ku5 mu us2-sa en-unu6-gal inanna ba-hun lu2-kal-la dub-sar dumu ur-e11-e szusz3
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 1, 108. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y5 — Year after: En-unugal of Inanna installed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (P128863) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128863..
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