CUSAS 03, 0850

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P323232

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Transliteration

1(disz) kusz# [udu] niga usz2
ki# iszkur-illat-ta
a-na-ah-i3-li2
szu ba-an-ti
iti ezem-mah
mu na-ru2-a-mah mu-ne-du3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 0850. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: CUNES 49-02-009 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Garšana (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P323232). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P323232..

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