AAICAB 1/2, pl. 134, 1971-327

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P248841

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248841.

Transliteration

1(ban2) [x] sila3# i3-gesz
[x]-x-[x]-ge#-si
[...] tu-ra
ugula ur-nin-tu
ki# szara2-kam#-ta
kiszib3 lu2#-kal-la
i3-ba geme2 dumu-ka ga2-ga2#-dam
iti sze-sag11-ku5
mu us2-sa bad3 mar-tu mu# us2-[sa-a]-bi#
lu2-kal-la
dub-sar
dumu ur-e11-e

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/2, pl. 134, 1971-327. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P248841) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248841..

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