CUNES 48-10-159

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P323131

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

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Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P323131.

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUNES 48-10-159. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: CUNES 48-10-159 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Adab (mod. Bismaya) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P323131). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P323131..

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