AnOr 07, 162

~2041 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P101457

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P101457.

Transliteration

3(u) udu giri3 ur-ba-ba6
1(u) masz2 giri3 ur-nigar
1(gesz2) 1(u) 2(disz) udu masz2 ki ur-nig2-ta
u4 1(u) 3(disz)-kam
7(disz) udu babila-ta giri3 szu-x
2(gesz2) 2(u) 4(disz) ki a-al-la-mu-ta
3(disz) udu giri3 ni-tam-ma
3(gesz2) 2(u) 5(disz)
zi-ga-am3
4(u) 3(disz) udu 6(disz) udu ba-usz2 gub-ba
la2-ia3 1(u) 2(disz) udu
[nig2]-ka9-ak a ku3 an-ne2-szu
iti ezem-an-na u4 1(u) 8(disz)-kam
mu sza-asz-ru ba-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 07, 162. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y6 — Šašru destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Montserrat Museum, Barcelona, Spain (P101457) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P101457..

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