Position in chronology
SACT 2, 087
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P129044.
Transliteration
5(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-sze3 ka i7-da-sze3 ma2 gid2-da ugula a-a-mu giri3 ur-nin-su iti szu-numun mu an-sza-an ba-hul ur-[nin-su] dub-[sar] dumu ur-e2-nun-na
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — SACT 2, 087. 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: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (P129044) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P129044..
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