Position in chronology
Šulgi 66
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(1) To Inana, her lady, for the well-being of Šulgi, the powerful man, king of Urim, Watartum, ....
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
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Why it matters
A dedicatory inscription to Inana naming Šulgi as king of Ur, attesting the ideological fusion of divine patronage and royal legitimacy at the height of Ur III imperial power.
Scholarly note
Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q001698.
Attribution
Image: CBS 08598 (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P227053). source
Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q001698/.
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