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Ur-Nanše 02 (Q001021)

Royal Inscription, Early Dynastic IIIb, Girsu · c. 2900 BCE–2340 BCE

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DesignationUr-Nanše 02
IDQ001021
LanguageSumerian
PeriodEarly Dynastic IIIb · c. 2900 BCE–2340 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotGirsu
Coordinates31.5591, 46.1776

Transliteration (ATF)

From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)

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.

LineATFMachine English (draft)
Text 1,
1ur-{d}nanšeUr-Nanše
2lugal lagašking of Lagaš
3dumu gu-NI-DUson of Gunidu
4dumu gur-sarson of Gursar,
5e₂ {d}nin-ŋir₂-suthe temple of Ninbirsu
6mu-du₃he built.
7abzu-ban₃-daof the Abzu-banda
8mu-du₃he built.
9e₂ {d}nanšethe temple of Nanše
10mu-du₃he built.
Text 2,
1ur-{d}nanšeUr-Nanše
2lugalthe king
3lagašof Lagaš
4ma₂ dilmunboat of Dilmun
5kur-tafrom the mountain
6gun₂ ŋeš mu-ŋal₂he carries the weapon
Captions i
1a₂-ni-tafrom his arm
Captions ii
1AB₂-da dumuAbda, child.
2a-kur-gal dumuAkurgal, child.
3lugal-ezen dumuLugal-ezen, child.
4a₂-ni-kur-ra dumuAni-kura, child.
5mu-kur-muš₃-ta dumuMukur-mušta, son
Captions iii
1sag-dingir-tukuSag-dingir-tuku
Captions iv
1ba-LUL muš-lah₅-galBaLUL, chief mušlahgal
2a-nun-pa₃ dumuAnunpa, son
3men-u₄-su₁₃ dumuMenusu, child.
4ad-da-TUR dumuAdda-tūri, child.

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