CUNES 51-04-018

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P325423

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325423.

Transliteration

ib#?-ni-iszkur
u3#-na-a-du11
[...]-dub-ba
[x]-x-gilgamesx(|BIL3.MES.GA|)
[...]-x-er3-ra
[...]-x
x x-za
1(disz) KA-x-x-um
1(disz) dingir-su-dan
x-ru-x
dumu ba-ak-x-gi4

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUNES 51-04-018. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: CUNES 51-04-018 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P325423). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P325423..

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