AnOr 07, 075

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P101370

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P101370.

Transliteration

1(disz) udu niga sa2-du11
siskur2 inanna sza3 e2-gal
1(disz) udu niga
1(disz) masz2-gal niga
mu nin s,e-lu-usz-da-gan-sze3
1(disz) masz2
nin-sun2
2(disz) udu u2
4(disz) masz2
ba-usz2 e2-gal-la ba-an-kux(KWU147)
iti-ta u4 2(u) 7(disz) ba-ra-zal
zi-ga ur-lugal-edin-ka
iti szu-esz5-sza
mu ki-masz ba-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 07, 075. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Montserrat Museum, Barcelona, Spain (P101370) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P101370..

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