UET 3, 1320

~2065 BCE·Ur III · Neo-Sumerian·P137645

Translation · reference

Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P137645.

Why it matters

Transliteration

sze-ba zah3-<ha> guru7-a gi4-a
dur3 mu 1(disz)-a-kam
iti sze-sag11-ku5-ta
iti me-ki-gal2-sze3
mu bad3 ma-da ba-du3
en-nir-zi-an-na
en nanna
giri3-ni-i3-sa6
dub-sar
dumu he2-sa6-ge#
ARAD2-zu

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — UET 3, 1320. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y30 — The frontier wall was built based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P137645) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P137645..

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