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En-metena 05a (Q001115)

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

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DesignationEn-metena 05a
IDQ001115
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}inana-raFor Inana
2{d}lugal-e₂-muš₃-rafor Lugalemuš
3en-mete-naEnmetena
4ensi₂governor
ii
1lagaš{ki}of Lagash
2dumu en-an-na-tum₂son of Enanatum,
3ensi₂governor
4lagaš{ki}-ka-ke₄of Lagash
iii
1e₂-muš₃ e₂ ki aŋ₂-ne-neEmuš, the house of the fathers
2mu-ne-du₃he built.
3en-mete-naEnmetena
4mu pad₃-dawhose name was proclaimed
iv
1{d}inana-kaof Inana
2lu₂ e₂-muš₃ du₃the man who built the Emus
3dingir-ra-nihis god
4{d}šul-lahšu-am₆Šullahšu

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