Position in chronology
CUSAS 03, 1371
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P323228.
Transliteration
[n] 5(disz) gi-ku#-ab 1/2(disz) [sila3?-ta?] 2(disz) gi-ku-[du3-na] 5(disz) sila3-ta 1(u) 1(disz) gi-ku-kas4?-ab? [n sila3?]-ta# asz-asz NE-ma?-nu? szu ak ki iszkur-illat-ta []szara2-kam [szu] ba-ti [iti a2]-ki-ti [mu] si-mu-ru-um ba-hul szara2-kam dub-sar dumu nu-ur2-suen
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 1371. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šulgi y23 — Simurrum destroyed based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: CUNES 49-02-005 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Garšana (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P323228). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P323228..
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