JCS 52, 047 69

~2043 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P145863

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P145863.

Transliteration

3(ban2) nin9-kal-la
1(ban2) nin9-szesz-a-na dumu-ni
la2-ia3 su-ga lu2-szara2 dumu er3-hu-la
ur-nin-tu i3-dab5
iti min3-esz3
mu en-unu6-gal inanna ba-hun
lu2-du10-ga
dub-sar
dumu du11-ga

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — JCS 52, 047 69. 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: Arizona State Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA (P145863) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P145863..

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