Nisaba 32, 159

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P325395

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CUSAS 01, 036

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Transliteration

sar-ni-a
u3-na-a-du11
1(asz) sze gur
tu-ra-am-i3-li2
he2-na-ab-szum2
im du8 asz2
ki ba-gara2 ISZ-ar

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Nisaba 32, 159. 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: CUNES 51-03-009 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P325395). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P325395..

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