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Šu-Suen 18 (Q001818)

Royal Inscription, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE

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Designation	Šu-Suen 18
ID	Q001818
Collection	British Museum, London, UK; Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language	Sumerian
Period	Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
Genre	Royal Inscription
Find spot	Umma
Coordinates	31.6500, 45.9000

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.

Line	ATF	Machine English (draft)
1	{d}šara₂	Šara
2	nir-ŋal₂ an-na	the hero of heaven
3	dumu ki aŋ₂	son of A’ub
4	{d}inana	For Inana
5	lugal-a-ni-ir	his master
6	{d}šu-{d}suen	Šū-Suen,
7	ki aŋ₂ {d}en-lil₂-la₂	with the father of Enlil
8	lugal {d}en-lil₂-le	king whom Enlil
9	ki aŋ₂ šag₄-ga-na	from the wages of her dowry
10	in-pad₃	he has sworn.
11	lugal kalag-ga	the powerful king
12	lugal urim₅{ki}-ma	king of Urim,
13	lugal an-ub-da limmu₂-ba-ke₄	king of the four world quarters,
14	šag₄-ge-pad₃-da	to be chosen
15	e₂ ki aŋ₂-ni	the house where his laborers
16	nam-til₃-la-ni-še₃	for his well-being
17	mu-na-du₃	built for him.

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