NATN 673

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P121371

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P121371.

Transliteration

1(ban2) 5(disz) sila3 [...]
ki lu2-nin#-szubur#-ta
ba-zi
giri3 ur-ge6-par4-ra
iti gu4-si-su#
mu en#-[am-gal]-an-na inanna# ba-hun
lugal-sa6-ga#
dub-sar
dumu amar-szuba2

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN 673. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P121371) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P121371..

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