Position in chronology
TMH NF 1-2, 334
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P134645.
Transliteration
iti kin-[inanna] [amar-]suen# [lugal kal-ga] [lugal uri5]-ma [lugal] an ub-[da] limmu2-ba lugal-me#-[lam2] ensi2 nibru dub#-sar za3#-ga dumu [...]-en-lil2 dub-[sar] ge6-par4# nibru-ka ARAD2 [x] x [x]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — TMH NF 1-2, 334. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: HS 1334 (Hilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Germany) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P134645). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P134645..
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