AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 407

~2045 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P330475

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330475.

Transliteration

5(disz) udu bar-su-ga
mu-kux(DU) szara2 du6-nin-hi-li-su3-ga
ki sza3-ku3-ge-ta
ur-e11-e i3-dab5
mu amar-suen lugal-e ur-bi2-lum mu-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 407. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y2 — Urbilum destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P330475) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330475..

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