Sale Documents 094

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P123214

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P123214.

Transliteration

1(disz) sag-munus
sag-ba an-za-za-a <mu-ni-im>
ku3 2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar2
nin-du-du-sze3
lu2-szara2-ke4
i3-szi-sa10
[1(disz) da?]-da
[1(disz) szu?]-gi4-tum
1(disz) na-ba-sa6
1(disz) nigar-ki-du10
1(disz) lugal-nesag-e
1(disz) szu-ma-am3
lu2-ki-inim-ma-me

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Sale Documents 094. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Siegfried H. Horn Museum, Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA (P123214) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P123214..

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