Position in chronology
AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 592
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330649.
Transliteration
[...] [...]-[...] [...]-ga-[...] dumu [...] [...] [...] x x sza3 [...] [n] 4(asz) 2(barig) gur su-ga x x [...] ur-lamma dumu ka5-a-[x] 1(asz) 4(barig) 3(ban2) gur su-ga lu2-giri17#-zal kuruszda# 1(asz) gur su-ga ad-da dumu di-ku5 su-ga a-sza3 igi-x-[...]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 592. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P330649) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P330649..
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