UET 3, 1028

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P137353

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P137353.

Transliteration

2(ban2) sze lugal
[...] a-bu-um
1(ban2) 5(disz) a-hu-ba-qar
2(ban2) x-iszkur
2(ban2) ARAD2-nanna
1(ban2) ARAD2-[...]
2(ban2) dumu lugal-x-[x] 2(disz)-a-bi
szunigin 1(barig) 5(ban2) sze
sze-ba ug3-IL2 es3-sa2-ke4-ne
mu-ni-sze3 ba-an-tak4
iti ezem-an-na
mu bad3-gal ba-du3
lu2-gi-na
dub-sar
dumu lu2-nin-ga2-ka

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — UET 3, 1028. 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 (P137353) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P137353..

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