AAICAB 1/3, pl. 224, Bod S 188

~2060 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P249092

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249092.

Transliteration

5(asz) sze gur lugal
ki ad-da-ta
szesz-kal-la
szu ba-ti
iti sze-kar-ra-gal2-la
mu an-sza-<an> ba-hul
lugal-si-NE-e#
ARAD2 szara2
dumu sa6-mu#

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/3, pl. 224, Bod S 188. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y35 — Anšan destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Bod S 188 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK) — from Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P249092). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249092..

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