Fs Sigrist 028, no. 05

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P234826

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P234826.

Transliteration

1(ban2) kasz 1(ban2) ninda
4(disz) gin2 i3
u4 5(disz)-kam sza3-iri
2(asz) dug dida
2(ban2) dabin
kaskal-sze3
lugal-nam2-mah# lu2 tukul
sa2-du11-ga lu2 ma2 gal-gal-<ke4>-ne-sze3# gen-na
iti# munu4-gu7

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Fs Sigrist 028, no. 05. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (P234826) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P234826..

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