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En-metena 20 (Q001102)

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

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DesignationEn-metena 20
IDQ001102
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)
1{d}nanšeFor Nanše
2šeš-ŋar-ra
3en-mete-naEnmetena
4ensi₂governor
5lagaš{ki}of Lagash
6šag₄ pad₃-dachosen by the heart
7{d}nanšeFor Nanše
8ensi₂ galgreat ruler
9{d}nin-ŋir₂-su₂-kaof Ninbirsu
10šeš pa₃-dachosen one
11{d}nin-darFor Nindara
12lugal uru₁₆-nathe mighty king
13dumu en-an-na-tum₂son of Enanatum,
14ensi₂governor
15lagaš{ki}-ka-ke₄of Lagash
16ig eren babbar₂a white cedar door
17mu-na-dim₂he fashioned for him.
18nam-til₃-la-ni-še₃for his well-being
19e₂-a mu-na-kurₓ(DU)he made enter the house for him.

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