Ontario 2, 270

~2037 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P209593

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209593.

Transliteration

1(esze3) [...]-bi 4(barig) gur
uru4-ta
a-a-kal-la ra2-gaba
1(esze3) GAN2 1(asz) 1(barig) gur
szesz-a-ni 4(u) sar
1(bur3) GAN2 1(u) sze gur
szul-gi-i3-li2 sagi
ki gu-u2-gu-a-ta
mu szu-suen lugal-e bad3 mar-tu ba-du3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Ontario 2, 270. 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.

Attribution

Image: Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P209593) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P209593..

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