AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 592

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P330649

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial 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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