CST 024

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P212948

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P212948.

Transliteration

[1(asz@c)] ur#-esz3-ku3-ga#
1(asz@c) lugal-iri-x
dumu-ni-me#
1(asz@c) ur-dumu-zi#
x-nita-me
la2-ia3 1(disz) gurusz#?
ur-esz3-ku3-ga
3(gesz2) 5(disz) udu-hi-a
1(asz@c) lugal-uri3 na-gada
1(asz@c) ba-zi
1(asz) lugal nu-banda3
dumu 1(asz) lugal-sipa
dumu 1(asz) lu2-bala-sa6-ga

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CST 024. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (P212948) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P212948..

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