Position in chronology
HSS 04, 122
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110395.
Transliteration
1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar la2-ia3 su-ga sze ki igi-zu-bar-ra-ta e2-gal-la ba-an-kux(KWU147) sza3 e2# sag#-da-na giri3 ur-lamma dumu lu2-nin-gir2-su iti szu-numun mu gu-za en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — HSS 04, 122. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Ur-Nammu y14 — The throne of Enlil was fashioned based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P110395) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P110395..
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