CUSAS 01, 033

~3100 BCE·Uruk Period·P325220

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325220.

Transliteration

5(N14) 7(N01) , KISZ SUKKAL RAD~a
1(N14) 1(N01) , DUB~a
2(N14) , NAGAR~a
2(N14) 6(N01) , ERIM~a

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)) — CUSAS 01, 033. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: CUNES 50-11-004 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P325220). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325220..

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