Position in chronology
SACT 1, 091
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128846.
Transliteration
1(disz) masz2 ga ma2-gan ba-usz2 sza3 u3-tu-da u4 8(disz)-kam ki u2-ta2-mi-szar-ra-am-ta szul-gi-iri-mu szu ba-ti giri3 e-pi-ri iti szu-esz5-sza mu en-unu6-gal inanna ba-hun 1(disz) udu
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 1, 091. 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: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (P128846) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128846..
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