Position in chronology
Amar-Suena 2009
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To Lamma, her lady, Ḫala-Bau, the spouse of Ur-Lamma, the scribe, dedicated this (bead) for the well-being of Amar-Suena, the powerful king, king of Urim.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001809/
Why it matters
A private votive dedication by a scribe's wife to the goddess Lamma, it attests the personal piety of literate households under Amar-Suena and the role of women as independent dedicants in Ur III religious life.
Transliteration
Scholarly note
Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q001809.
Attribution
Image: NBC 02530 (Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P226892). source
Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001809/.
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