Kyoto 42

~2036 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P112447

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P112447.

Transliteration

ur-suen-ke4
na-ab-be2-a
la2-ia3 lu2-kal-la
a-na mu-da-gal2
sag iti min-esz3-sze3
1(disz) sila3-am3 ki-na nu-ub-ga2-ga2-da
mu lugal-bi in-pa3
tukum-bi
x na-ba-tak4
x-tab-be2-a
[x] lugal-bi in-pa3
[mu] szu-suen lugal-e [ma2]-gur8#-mah en-lil2 []nin-lil2-ra mu-ne-dim2
ur-[...]
PA.AH?-[...]
dumu ur-da-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Kyoto 42. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y2 — Great barge for Enlil and Ninlil fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (P112447) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P112447..

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