UET 3, 1394

~2064 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P137719

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P137719.

Why it matters

Transliteration

usz2 1(asz@c) 3(ban2) nin-mu-uszur4-mu
iti a2-ki-ti-ta
usz2 masz 3(ban2) nin-ki-ur5-sa6
usz2 1(asz@c) 3(ban2) geme2-tur
iti ezem-szul-gi
usz2 1(asz@c) 3(ban2) a-ba-na-ak-tum
iti ezem-an-na-ta
geme2 ba-usz2-me
a2-bi u4 9(gesz2) 3(u)-a-kam
en-sza3-ga-na ugula usz-bar-ka
ba-na-zi
iti sze-sag11-ku5-ta
iti diri me-ki-gal2-e us2-sa-sze3
mu us2-sa bad3 ma-da ba-du3-a

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — UET 3, 1394. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y31 — Year after: The frontier wall was built based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P137719) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P137719..

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