Position in chronology
Sin-kašid 03
Translation — scholar edition
ETCSRI(1) Sin-kašid, the powerful man, king of Unug, king of Amnanum, provider of the E-ana, built his royal palace.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions — scholar edition (Vienna).
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Why it matters
Attests Sin-kašid's dual title — king of Uruk and king of the Amnanum tribe — anchoring his otherwise poorly documented dynasty within both civic and tribal power structures of post-Ur III Babylonia.
Scholarly note
Sumerian royal inscription, published in the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI) by Gábor Zólyomi and collaborators. Translation reproduced from the ETCSRI edition. ORACC text Q002240.
Attribution
Image: USC 6619 (Archaeological Research Collection, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA) — from Uruk (mod. Warka) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P235313). source
Translation excerpted from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI), University of Vienna, edited by Gábor Zólyomi et al. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/Q002240/.
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