HSS 03, 43

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P221352.

Transliteration

1(asz@c) URU-KA#-gi-na-en-lil2-le-su
1(asz@c) URU-KA-gi-na-nin-gir2-[su]-ke4-su#
1(asz@c)# URU-KA-gi-na-nansze-su
lu2# a-en-ra-gub-me
lugal-esz3-du10-ga
dub-sar-da
e#-da#-se12# 3(|ASZxDISZ@t|)

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — HSS 03, 43. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P221352) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P221352..

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