HSS 04, 076

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P110349

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110349.

Transliteration

1(ban2) kasz du lugal kal
1(ban2) ninda du8-a-ta
u4 1(u) 6(disz)-sze3
kasz 2(barig) 4(ban2) lugal
ninda-bi 2(barig) 4(ban2)
a-hu-ba-qar sukkal
lu2 a-u2 gukkal-<<hul2>>-na-sze3
im-szi-gen-na
giri3 lu2-na-ru2-a dumu ur-iszkur
iti ezem-dumu-zi-x-x

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HSS 04, 076. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P110349) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110349..

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