Position in chronology
AAICAB 1/3, pl. 223, Bod S 184
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249087.
Transliteration
1(u) 4(asz) 1(barig) dabin gur lugal ki szesz-kal-la muhaldim-ta lugal-nesag-e dumu bar-an-ra-ke4 szu ba-ti ka2-mah inanna-ta iti ezem-szul-gi mu us2-sa si-mu-ru-um ba-hul [ki] szesz#-kal-la-ta [lugal]-nesag#-e szu ba-ti# [...] lugal-nesag-e dub-sar dumu bar-ra-an
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — AAICAB 1/3, pl. 223, Bod S 184. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y24 — Year after: Simurrum destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P249087) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249087..
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