Orient 55, 156 no. 1

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P424393

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Transliteration

1(disz) [ha]-zi#-in
ki-la2-bi 1(disz) ma-na 2(disz) gin2
ki ur-saga-ta
la-a-mu
szu ba-ti
iti sig4-u3-szub-ba-ga2-ra#
mu# [dumu-munus] lugal# ensi2# [an]-sza#-na ba-an-tuku

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Orient 55, 156 no. 1. 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: WCMA 20.1.26 (Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA) — from Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P424393). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P424393..

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