Ontario 1, 035

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P124448

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P124448.

Transliteration

1(disz) sila4
mu-kux(DU) s,e-lu-usz-da-gan
2(disz) udu niga 1(disz) asz2-gar3 niga
mu-kux(DU) ur-suen
e2-uz-ga a-a-kal-la maszkim
1(disz) sila4 nusku
mu-kux(DU) zabar-dab5
er3-ra-na-da maszkim
2(disz) gu4 1(disz) gu4 mu 2(disz) 4(disz) udu 1(u) 2(disz) u8
1(disz) kir11 6(disz) masz2 2(disz) ud5 szu-gid2
e2-muhaldim
u4 1(u) 9(disz)-kam
ki na-sa6-ta ba-zi
iti szu-esz-sza
mu ha-ar-szi ki-masz hu-ur5-ti u3 ma-da-bi u4 1(disz)-bi ba-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Ontario 1, 035. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P124448) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P124448..

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