Position in chronology
JCS 10, 031 12
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P111906.
Transliteration
1(disz) har# [ku3-babbar x] gin2# [...] x [...] hu#-un-[...] ensi2# [...]-ma [...]-um [...] u4 lugal-mu e2 lu2-nanna dumu nam-ha-ni ensi2 ha-ma-zi2-ka kasz i3-nag-ga2-a in-be6-e-esz2 ki puzur4-er3-ra-ta ba-zi sza3 puzur4-isz-da-gan iti szah2-ku3-gu7 mu amar-suen lugal-e ur-bi2-lum mu-hul
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — JCS 10, 031 12. 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: Siegfried H. Horn Museum, Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA (P111906) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P111906..
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