AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 464

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P330532

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330532.

Transliteration

[x] en-ki-szesz
1(asz) ni-da-ga
1(asz) lugal-a-ma-ru
1(asz) pesz2-am3
bahar3-me
4(barig) a-du10#-dagal
1(asz) ku5-da
e2 szara2
3(asz) ur-gigir muszen-du3#
e2# nin-ur4-ra
ki# ur-saga-ta
[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 464. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P330532) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330532..

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