NATN p. 56 catalogue

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P275926

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P275926.

Transliteration

[n] gin2# ku3-babbar
masz2 nu-tuku
[ki] x-ezem-ta
si#-du3
szu ba-ti
[iti ...]-x gi4-gi4-da
[mu lugal]-bi in-pa3
[igi ...]-suen
[igi ...]-x-bi
[lu2-inim-m]a-bi-me
[iti? ab?]-e3#?
[mu ma-da] za-ab-[sza-li ba]-hul
si-du3
dumu gu-la

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN p. 56 catalogue. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P275926) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P275926..

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