Orient 55, 157 no. 2

~2043 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P424388

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P424388.

Transliteration

3(gesz2) 5(disz) udu niga 1(disz) sila3-ta
udu bala-a
sze-bi 1(u) 8(asz) 2(barig) 3(ban2) gur
giri3 lugal-a2-zi-da
iti dal
mu en-unu6-gal inanna ba-hun

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Orient 55, 157 no. 2. 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: WCMA 20.1.21 (Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA) — from Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P424388). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P424388..

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