Position in chronology
BE 03/1, 040
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P105592.
Transliteration
1(asz) 2(barig) sze gur sza3-gal geme2 dumu du10-ga-ni en-nu-ga2 ti-la ki lugal-nam-tar-re-ta lugal-sa6-ga szu ba-ti iti bara2-za3-gar-ra mu en-am-gal inanna ba-hun lugal-sa6-ga dub-sar dumu amar-szuba2
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — BE 03/1, 040. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P105592) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P105592..
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