MVN 15, 355

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P118620

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Transliteration

2(u) gu2 3(disz) ma-na uruda
ki dam-gar3-ta
ugu2 gu-du-du ba-a-gar
kiszib3 ur-nun-gal
mu e2 szara2 ba-du3
szu-suen
lugal kal-ga
lugal uri5-ma
lugal an-ub-da limmu2-ba
ur-[nun-gal]
dub-sar
dumu ur-[szara2]
sza13-dub-ba-ka
ARAD2-zu

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — MVN 15, 355. 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: SI 344991k (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA) — from Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P118620). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P118620..

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