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En-metena 31add (Q004843)

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

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DesignationEn-metena 31add
IDQ004843
LanguageSumerian
PeriodEarly Dynastic IIIb · c. 2900 BCE–2340 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotLagash
Coordinates31.4182, 46.4108

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-su₂Ninbirsu
1'x na-ru₂-a-biits stele
2'lu₂ umma{ki}-ke₄the man of Umma
3'mu-padhe swore.
4'eden lagaš{ki}-še₃in the plain of Lagaš
5'mu-DUdelivery
ii
1'ki-x-x...,
2'e-da-x...,
3'na-ru₂-a e-da-ru-a-baAt the threshing floor, where the stela is located,
4'{d}nin-ŋir₂-su-raFor Ninbirsu
5'en abzu-tafrom the lord of the Abzu
6'u₄ sud-še₃ mahexalted day
iii
1'x-da x...;
2'til₃ na-na-šum₂-munot live anymore!
3'a-nehis father
4'e₂ an-še₃ x xThe house of heaven ...
5'x

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