Position in chronology
MVN 11, 150
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P116163.
Transliteration
[n] 1(u) gu2 7(disz) ma-na siki# ki lu2-nin-gir2-su dumu ARAD2-mu-ta dam-gar3-ne szu ba-ab-ti kiszib3 lu2-utu dumu ba-zi sza3 gu2-ab-ba giri3 ur-ig-alim dumu ur-ba-ba6 [mu en-unu6-gal inanna ba-hun] lu2-utu dub-sar dumu ba-zi
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — MVN 11, 150. 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: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P116163) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P116163..
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