HSS 04, 119

~2046 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P110392

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110392.

Transliteration

1/2(disz) ma-na 6(disz) gin2 9(disz) sze ku3-babbar
la2-ia3 su-ga
lu2 u2-du-lu-ke4-ne
ki ur-ba-ba6 dumu lu2-dur-ta
e2-gal-la ba-an-kux(KWU147)
giri3 lu2-utu dumu ba-zi
iti szu-numun
mu amar-suen lugal ur-bi2-lum mu-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HSS 04, 119. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y1 — Amar-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P110392) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110392..

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