AnOr 07, 375

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P101670

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P101670.

Transliteration

[...] x 1(u) 1(disz) 1/3(disz) x
[...] udu masz2 hi-[a]
1(gesz2) 3(u) 7(disz) gurusz u4 1(disz)-[sze3]
la2#-ia3-am3
x 3(disz) 2/3(disz) sila3 2(disz) gin2 i3
[(x)] 4(disz)# 1/2(disz) ma-na 1(disz) 2/3(disz) gin2 u2-hab2
[n?] 7(disz) 1/3(disz) sila3 2(disz) gin2 al-la-ha-ru
[n] 1(disz)# 1/3(disz) sila3 5(disz) 2/3(disz) gin2 im ku3-sig17
lugal-ma2-gur8-re#
dumu lu2-szara2

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AnOr 07, 375. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Montserrat Museum, Barcelona, Spain (P101670) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P101670..

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