Ontario 2, 355

~2058 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P209701

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209701.

Transliteration

1(u) 7(disz) 4(u) esir2? babbar gir
2(barig) 5(ban2) 6(disz) sila3 esir2 E2-A
sza3 a2 u4-da
giri3 lugal-uszurx(|LAL2.TUG2|)
kiszib3 hu-wa-wa
mu bad3 mar-tu ba-du3
lu2-eb-gal
dub-sar
dumu ur-ge6-par4
gudu4# inanna

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Ontario 2, 355. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y37 — The Amorite wall was built based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P209701) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209701..

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