Position in chronology
CUSAS 01, 031
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325217.
Transliteration
[...] , [...] 1(N34) 4(N14) 9(N01) , KISZ EN~a UR~a 5(N01) , AMAR EN~a 2(N01) , EN~a PAP~a DU SANGA~a
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 031. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: CUNES 50-11-001 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P325217). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325217..
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