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Gudea Statue H
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High confidence(i 1) For Bau, the kind woman, the child of An, the lady of Iri-kug, the lady of abundance, the child of holy An, his lady, after building her beloved temple, the E-tarsirsir, the temple which is the ornament of Iri-kug, Gudea, ruler of Lagaš, transported diorite from the mountains of Magan, fashioned his statue from it, named it for her sake "The lady, the beloved child of holy An, mother Bau from E-tarsirsir, granted well-being to Gudea"; and brought it before her in the temple in Iri-kug.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001547/
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Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q001547.
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Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001547/.
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