Orient 55, 166 no. 13

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P424390

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Transliteration

5(disz) dug dida saga
3(disz) dug dida du
kiszib3 u3-ma-ni#
sza3 bala
u3-ma-ni
dub-sar
dumu nam-ha-ni

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Orient 55, 166 no. 13. 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 20.1.23 (Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA) — from Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P424390). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P424390..

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