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RIME 4.02.08.05, ex. 01 (P345487)

Official or display, Early Old Babylonian, Eridu · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE

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Designation	RIME 4.02.08.05, ex. 01
ID	P345487
Museum no.	BM 114342
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Sumerian
Period	Early Old Babylonian · c. 2000 BCE–1900 BCE
Genre	Official or display
Find spot	Eridu (mod. Abu Shahrain)
Coordinates	30.8169, 45.9962

Transliteration (ATF)

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Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
surface a
1	nu-ur2-{d}iszkur	Nur-Adad,
2	nita kal-ga	the strong man
3	engar zi uri5{ki}-ma	faithful farmer of Ur,
4	lugal larsa{ki}-ma	king of Larsa,
5	me esz3 e2-babbar-ra	the divine powers of the shrine Ebabbar
6	ku3-ku3-ge	the holy one
7	eridu{ki} u4 ul-li2-a-ta	from Eridu, since distant days
8	szu mu-un-hul-a-ba	when he had destroyed it
9	bala nig2-si-sa2-mu-usz	a reign of justice
10	du3-de3 al bi2-du11	to build, he said.
11	{d}en-ki-ke4	of Enki
12	ki-tusz ku3 ki-ag2-ga2-ni	his beloved holy residence
13	mu-na-du3	built for him.
14	gesz-hur ul-li2-a-ka-ni	and his eternal plans
15	ki-be2 mu-na-gi4	he restored for him.

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