Ontario 2, 105

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P209456

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209456.

Transliteration

7(asz) sze gur lugal
sa2-du11 inanna unu
kiszib3 al-ba-ni-du11
3(asz) gur kiszib3 [...]-ti
3(asz) gur kiszib3 ur-nin-ildu3?-ma
kiszib3 sipa-da iri
3(asz) <gur> kiszib3 musz-me
ki szesz-kal-la
szunigin sze gur
sze zi-ga zabala-ta
giri3 lu2-gi-na
iti pa4-u2-e
mu si-mu-ru-um lu-lu-bu a-ra2 9(disz) kam-asz ba-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Ontario 2, 105. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P209456) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209456..

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