Position in chronology
En-anatum I 14
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) En-ana-tum, ruler of Lagaš, nominee of Inana, built the Ebgal. (i 8) (When) he made the E-ana exceed all the mountains for (Inana), then Luma-tur, child of En-ana-tum, fashioned numerous inscribed clay nails, and embellished the E-ana for her with them.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001075/
Why it matters
Records En-anatum I's construction of the Ebgal and embellishment of the E-ana at Lagash, attesting the mid-third-millennium practice of commemorating temple patronage through inscribed clay nails driven into mudbrick walls.
Transliteration
Scholarly note
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 Q001075.
Attribution
Image: Erm 14314 (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) — from Girsu (mod. Tello) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P222479). source
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/Q001075/.
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