LB 0237

~2060 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P388771

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P388771.

Transliteration

ur-sag?-[...]
szu ba-ti#?
[... ]ba-ba6
x [...] GA-UR?
ki# inim-ba-ba6-i3-dab5-ta
iti mu-szu-du8
mu an-sza-an ba-hul
geme2-lamma
eresz-dingir ba-ba6
ur-sag-[ub3]
sipa ansze ARAD2-[zu]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — LB 0237. 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: LB 0237 (de Liagre Böhl Collection, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden, Holland) — from Girsu (mod. Tello) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P388771). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P388771..

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