AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 377

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P330446

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330446.

Transliteration

1(asz) 2(barig) 3(ban2) sze gur lugal
lugal-ku3-zu dumu ha-ba-lu5-ge2
a-sza3 a-ba-gal en-lil2-la2
2(barig) 3(ban2) szara2-i3-sa6
a-sza3 uku2-nu-ti
[n] 2(asz) sze# gur# lugal
sze# gub#-[ba]
mu-kux(DU)#
a-sza3 a-ba-gal en-lil2-la2 u3 a-sza3 uku2-nu-ti
mu us2-sa si-mu-ru-um lu-lu-bu a-ra2 1(u) la2 1(disz)-kam-asz ba-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 377. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P330446) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330446..

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