AAICAB 1/2, pl. 099, 1935-568

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P248643

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248643.

Transliteration

1(asz) sze gur lugal
ur-zi3-dam
1(asz) gur
ur-pil3
2(disz) en-ga6-ga6
2(disz) lugal-uszurx(|LAL.TUG2|)
1(asz) me-pa-e3
1(asz) pa3-da
sze-ba za3-mu
du3-a-ku5-e-ne
a-sza3 musz-bi-an-na-ta
ki ur-en-lil2-la2-ta
iti dumu-zi
mu dumu-lugal

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/2, pl. 099, 1935-568. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P248643) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248643..

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