Position in chronology
Ontario 2, 432
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209746.
Transliteration
1(gesz2) 4(u) 9(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 ugu2 i7-pa-e3 ba-a-gar ugula a-a-kal-la kiszib3 lu2-dingir-ra mu us2-sa bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 lu2-dingir-ra dub-sar dumu ha-ba-lu5?-ge2
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Ontario 2, 432. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y38 — Year after: The Amorite wall was built based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P209746) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209746..
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