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En-metena 11 (Q001109)

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

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DesignationEn-metena 11
IDQ001109
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)
i
1{d}nin-ŋir₂-su₂Ninbirsu
2ur-saŋ {d}en-lil₂-rafor Ursa of Enlil
3en-mete-naEnmetena
4ensi₂governor
5lagaš{ki}of Lagash
6šag₄ pad₃-dachosen by the heart
ii
1{d}nanšeFor Nanše
2ensi₂ galgreat ruler
3{d}nin-ŋir₂-su₂-kaof Ninbirsu
4dumu en-an-na-tum₂son of Enanatum,
5ensi₂governor
6lagaš{ki}-kaof Lagash
iii
1lu₂ eš₃ githe man of the reed shrine
2{d}nin-ŋir₂-su₂-kaof Ninbirsu
3du₃-abuilt
4dingir-ra-nihis god
5{d}šul-lahšuSvullaḫšu
6ud ul-la-še₃in distant days
iv
1nam-til₃-la-ni-še₃for his well-being
2{d}nin-ŋir₂-su₂-raFor Ninbirsu
3e₂-ninnu-aof the Eninnu
4he₂-na-še₃-kurₓ(DU)may he turn to him

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