Position in chronology
SACT 2, 093
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P129050.
Transliteration
2(disz) gurusz ad-kup4 u4 3(u)-sze3 kaskal dim2 lugal-ra-us2-sa sza3 bala-a ugula ur-szul-pa-e3 kiszib3 nam-sza3-tam kas4 mu en-unu6-gal inanna ba-hun en-kas4 dub-sar dumu ur-isztaran
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 2, 093. 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 (P129050) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P129050..
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