CUSAS 21, 067

~3100 BCE·Uruk Period·P325957

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325957.

Transliteration

1(N01) , GU4
, DI SAG
, KALAM~h# DI
5(N01) , UDU~a
[...] GURUSZDA~a
[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC) ?) — CUSAS 21, 067. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: CUNES 52-04-133 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P325957). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325957..

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