AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 474

~2043 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P330542

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330542.

Transliteration

7(disz) udu
3(disz) u8 gukkal
szu-gid2 e2-muhaldim
mu aga3-us2-e-ne-sze3
giri3 szul-gi-iri-mu
ARAD2-mu maszkim
iti u4 1(u) la2 1(disz@t) ba-zal
ki szul-gi-a-a-mu#-ta ba-zi
[iti] a2#-ki-ti
[mu en]-unu6#-gal [inanna ba]-hun#
1(u) udu

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 474. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y4 — En-unugal of Inanna installed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P330542) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330542..

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