Position in chronology
AUCT 2, 267
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P104085.
Transliteration
1(disz) sila4 nin-urta mu-kux(DU) ensi2 nibru 1(disz) sila4 nusku mu-kux(DU) ni-in-mu ri-ni-si-in maszkim 1(disz) udu a-lum gesz-du3 lugal-ma2-gur8-re mu-kux(DU) szul-gi-i3-li2 nu-banda3 u4 2(u) 5(disz)-kam ki ab-ba-sa6-ga-ta ba-zi iti masz-da3-gu7 mu us2-sa gu-za en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2 3(disz)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AUCT 2, 267. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y15 — Year after: The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Siegfried H. Horn Museum, Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA (P104085) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P104085..
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