HLC 117 (pl. 096)

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P109994

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P109994.

Transliteration

[...] gu4# apin e2 [x]
[...] e2 gesz-bar-e3#
[...] e2 szul-gi
x e2 nin-gesz-zi-da
1(barig) e2 nansze
1(asz) 3(barig) e2 szu-[suen]
1(barig) 1(ban2) e2 [...]
1(u) 6(disz) sila3 e2 nin-gir2-su
1(ban2) e2 dumu-zi
x szudul2(|U.TUG2|) gu4 apin 1(disz) gu4 apin nansze
gu4 apin [...]
inim PA-x-[...]-du
gu4 KU giri3 ba-a nigar
[mu en]-am-gal-an-na en inanna ba-hun

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HLC 117 (pl. 096). No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P109994) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P109994..

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