FMB 39.7

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P427646

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Transliteration

1(disz) eme6# mah2#
su-su utu-saga engar
1(disz) gu4 gesz u2-gu de2-a
su-su lu5-lu5-mu
kiszib3 lugal-iti-da nu-banda3 gu4
IGI.GAR mu us2-sa ur-bi2-lum ba-hul
ur-[li9-si4]
PA.TE#.[SI umma]
lugal-iti-da
dumu# giri3#-[ni ARAD2-zu]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — FMB 39.7. 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: Bodmer Museum, Cologny, Switzerland (P427646) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P427646..

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