CUNES 52-04-081

~2042 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P325905

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325905.

Transliteration

ur-szu-kal-ra#?
u3-na-a-du11
1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar
ku3 masz ga2-ga2
ib-ni-GIN2
he2#-na-ab-szum2#-mu
kiszib3 inim-szara2
iti dal
mu us2-sa en-unu6-gal inanna ba-hun
[ur]-e2-[mah]
lu2-mah [...]
inim-szara2
dumu szara2-za-me ARAD2-[zu]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUNES 52-04-081. 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: CUNES 52-04-081 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P325905). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325905..

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