Ontario 1, 010

~2059 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P124423

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P124423.

Transliteration

2(disz) udu gu4-e-us2-sa
2(disz) udu u2 1(disz) masz2
ensi2 nibru
4(disz) masz2-gal
1(disz) asz2-gar3
nin9 a-da-lal3 ugula usz-bar
1(disz) udu 1(disz) sila4
za-la-a
mu-kux(DU) szul-gi-si2-im-tum
sza3 tum-ma-al
iti ezem-szul-gi
mu us2-sa an-sza-an ba-hul

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — Ontario 1, 010. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y36 — Year after: Anšan destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (P124423) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P124423..

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