Position in chronology
Princeton 1, 463
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P127152.
Transliteration
1(bur3) 2(esze3) GAN2 1/2(iku) 1/4(iku) uru4-a a-sza3 szara2-gu2-gal [ugula] ur-lugal kiszib3 ku3-ga-ni mu bad3 mar-tu ba-du3 ku3-ga-ni dub-sar dumu ur-sa6-ga
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Princeton 1, 463. 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: Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (P127152) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P127152..
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