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~2035 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

ASJ 09, 234 05

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — ASJ 09, 234 05. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y1 — Šu-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

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~2035 BCE

·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian

Editorial

ASJ 09, 255 39

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — ASJ 09, 255 39. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

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~2035 BCE·Ur III · Neo-SumerianEditorial

ASJ 09, 271 79

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — ASJ 09, 271 79. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y1 — Šu-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

ASJ 09, 234 05

ASJ 09, 255 39

ASJ 09, 271 79

ASJ 09, 273 85

ASJ 14, 101 5

ASJ 16, 106 05

AUCT 1, 012

AUCT 1, 026

AUCT 1, 048

AUCT 1, 050

AUCT 1, 069

CUSAS 03, 0705

Hermitage 3, 371

Ontario 1, 136

Princeton 2, 058

TCL 02, 5549

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 018, 1909-951

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 020, 1911-160

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 020, 1911-164

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 021, 1911-169

AAICAB 1/1, pl. 022, 1911-175

AAICAB 1/2, pl. 098, 1935-563

AAICAB 1/3, pl. 239, Bod S 263

AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 362

AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 507

AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 512

AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 521

AAICAB 1/4, Bod S 528

AAS 070

ABTR 06

Akkadica 114-115, 101 29

Aleppo 083

Aleppo 206

Aleppo 289

Aleppo 323

AnOr 01, 009

AnOr 01, 018

AnOr 01, 071

AnOr 01, 094

AnOr 01, 098

AnOr 01, 108

AnOr 01, 199

AnOr 07, 046

AnOr 07, 051

AnOr 07, 112

AnOr 07, 214

ASJ 16, 105 02

ASJ 16, 106 06

CUSAS 03, 0707

CUSAS 03, 0718