NATN p. 60 catalogue

~2050 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P278075

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P278075.

Transliteration

[n] gin2 ku3-babbar
[masz2] nu-tuku
[...]-x-NI-ta
[...] SZUL#
[szu ba-ti]
[...] x
[iti kin-]inanna
[szum2]-mu#-dam
[mu x-]suen [lugal ...]
[...] SZUL? [...]
dumu giri3-ni

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — NATN p. 60 catalogue. 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 (P278075) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P278075..

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