Position in chronology
HSS 68, 454
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P407412.
Transliteration
1(disz) eme6 szu-gi4 6(disz) dur3 szu-gi4 ki lu2-banda3 ensi2-ta lugal-ur2-ra-ni sipa ur i3-dab5 mu us2-sa an-sza-an ba-hul szul-gi nita kal-ga lugal uri5-ma lugal-ur2-[ra-ni] sipa ur ARAD2-zu
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HSS 68, 454. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y36 — Year after: Anšan destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: SM 1911.10.411 (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) — from Puzriš-Dagan (mod. Drehem) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P407412). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P407412..
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