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Gudea Statue K (Q001549)

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

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DesignationGudea Statue K
IDQ001549
LanguageSumerian
PeriodLagash II · c. 2200 BCE–2100 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'x x x x
2'x x AN...;
ii
1x x x x
2kur ma₂-gan{ki}-tafrom Magan
3{na₄}esi im-ta-ed₃he surrounded it with ebony
4alan-na-ni-še₃his statue
5mu-tudhe swore.
6arad₂ lugal-ne₂servant of his master.
7ki aŋ₂-mewith laborers
8nam-til₃-ŋu₁₀ he₂-sudmay he prolong (his) life
9mu-še₃ mu-na-še₂₁he named it and named it for him
10e₂-ninnu-a mu-na-ni-kur₉he brought him into the Eninnu.
iii
1lu₂ mu-sar-biA person who this inscription
2šu ib₂-ta-ab-ur₃-aHand that has been smashed
5x-zi-zi-a...zizia
61(aš) sila₃ zi₃-dub-dub1 sila3 sifted flour
71(aš) sila₃ niŋ₂-ar₃-ra imŋaŋa₃1 sila3 crushed nibarru-flour
8sa₂-dug₄-biits regular offerings
9ba-ni-ib₂-lal-ahad been carried off,
10{d}nin-ŋir₂-suNinbirsu
11lugal {ŋeš}tukul-ke₄the king of weapons
12{d}ba-u₂For Bau,
13dumu an-na-ke₄the son of An
14{d}ig-alimIgalim
15{d}šul-šag₄-ga-naof Šulšagana
16dumu ki aŋ₂son of A’ub
17{d}nin-ŋir₂-su-ka-ke₄-neof Ninbirsu
18suhuš-a-ni he₂-burₓ(|KA׊U|)-re-nethey shall tear out his foundation
19numun-a-ni he₂-til-nethey shall finish off his seed.

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