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Gudea 052 (Q001494)

Royal Inscription, Lagash II, Uruk · c. 2200 BCE–2100 BCE

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DesignationGudea 052
IDQ001494
LanguageSumerian
PeriodLagash II · c. 2200 BCE–2100 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotUruk
Coordinates31.3234, 45.6395

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-suNinbirsu
2ur-saŋ kalag-gastrong hero
3{d}en-lil₂-la₂of Enlil
4lugal-a-nihis master
5gu₃-de₂-aGudea
6ensi₂governor
7lagaš{ki}of Lagash
8lu₂ e₂-ninnuthe man who the Eninnu
9{d}nin-ŋir₂-su-kaof Ninbirsu
ii
1in-du₃-ahad built,
2abul ka₂-sur-raGate of the Kasurra Gate
3igi u₆ dia beautiful face
4he₂-ŋal₂ il₂{li₂}may he carry off, raise up!
5mu-na-du₃built for him.
6ki-be₂ mu-na-gi₄he restored for him.
7{ŋeš}ig-kama door

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