Position in chronology
SACT 2, 193
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P129150.
Transliteration
2(disz) kid szer7-ru-um ki-la2-bi 1(disz) sar ma2 zi3-da ba-a-dul9 ki lu2-eb-gal-ta kiszib3 lu2-gi-na mu us2-sa bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 lu2-gi-na dub-sar dumu sza3-ku3-ge
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 2, 193. 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: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (P129150) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P129150..
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