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Unnamed Rulers of Lagaš 1 (Q003654)

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

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DesignationUnnamed Rulers of Lagaš 1
IDQ003654
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)
1'x x
2'x x x DU...;
3'x a-ša₃ a-mufield of Amu
4'saŋ-ŋe₂₆-eš₂ mu-rig₇he presented it.
5'{d}en-lil₂-leby Enlil
6'x-še₃to ...
7'x
8'e-da-kar-ra-biit will be seized.
9'umma{ki}-aof Umma,
10'{d}nin-gir₂-suFor Ningirsu
11'mete mu 5(aš@c) 5(aš@c)mete, 5 years (old)
12'{d}nanšeFor Nanše
13'mete mu nmete, [year n]
14'x x gi₄-gi₄... return!
15'iri-zu gul-gul-la-baWhen your city is destroyed
16'he₂-zumay he know.
17'gu₂ ki ŋar-ba-nion the bank of the barbani canal
18'umma{ki}of Umma
19'gul-gul-la-bain its destruction
20'he₂-zumay he know.
21'gu₂ ki gar-ba-niwhose neck is set on the ground
22'x-x x
23'x x x

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