SACT 1, 173

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P128928

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128928.

Transliteration

[4(disz) udu] hu-li-bar ensi2#! du8-du8-li2
giri3 ha-ni sukkal
ARAD2-mu maszkim
u4 1(disz)-kam
ki du11-ga-ta
ba-zi
giri3 hu-la-al dub-sar
iti ses-da-gu7
mu us2-sa ma2-dara3-abzu ba-ab-du8
4(disz) udu

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 1, 173. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (P128928) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P128928..

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