Position in chronology
KM 89242
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P235000.
Transliteration
1(disz) udu-nita2 u3-tu-da 3(disz) u8 ri-ri-ga-am3 ki nig2#-du10#-ga#-mu#-ta x x x x kiszib3 ARAD2#-[mu] iti ezem-szul-gi# mu en-unu6-gal inanna ba-hun ARAD2-mu# dub-[sar] dumu ur-nigar [szusz3]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — KM 89242. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Amar-Suen y4 — En-unugal of Inanna installed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (P235000) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P235000..
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