Position in chronology
En-šakuš-Ana 4
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For ..., Šuna-mugi, the grand vizier, built his temple for the well-being of En-šakuš-Ana, for his (own) well-being, and for the well-being of his spouse and child.
Source: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001365/
Why it matters
A grand vizier's temple dedication on behalf of king En-šakuš-Ana of Uruk: one of the earliest attestations of high Sumerian officialdom acting as royal proxy in monumental piety, c. 2450 BCE.
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 Q001365.
Attribution
Image: MRAH O.0173 (Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium) — from Uruk (mod. Warka) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P222957). 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/Q001365/.
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