HSS 04, 012

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P110285

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110285.

Transliteration

1(ban2) sze lugal
lu2-me-lam2
usz2 lu2-nin-szubur guru7-a tak4-a
1(ban2) lu2-sa6-ga ugula
1(ban2) ur-e2-gal he2-dab5
1(barig) lu2-nin-szubur he2-dab5 u3 sza3 e2 kikken2 guru7-a tak4-a
usz2 SIG7-a nig2-u2-rum guru7-a tak4-a
1(ban2) na-bi
1(ban2) lugal-pa-e3
1(ban2) ur-ig-alim
1(ban2) ur-ki-gu-la
1(ban2) lu2-nin-gir2-su dumu utu-bar-ra
[...] lu2-ba-ba6 im!-<e> tak4-a
1(ban2) ur-nin-gir2-su
ugula a-gu

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HSS 04, 012. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P110285) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110285..

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