AnOr 07, 288

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P101583

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P101583.

Transliteration

4(u) 7(disz) gurusz u4 [x-sze3]
zar3 tab-ba
a-sza3 a-u2-da#
ugula da-a-[...]
[kiszib3 ...]
iti sze-kar-gal2#-[la]
mu ku3 gu-za en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2#
ur-[...]
dumu usz#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 07, 288. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Montserrat Museum, Barcelona, Spain (P101583) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P101583..

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