Trouvaille 80

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P134753

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P134753.

Transliteration

1(disz) gu4 niga
nin-ti2-ug5-ga i3-si-in-ta du-ni
mu a-mur-suen ensi2 kuara2
ba-zi
u4 2(u) 4(disz)-kam
iti u5-bi2-gu7
mu en nanna masz-e i3-pa3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Trouvaille 80. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (P134753) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P134753..

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