Official or display cone excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), dated to the Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Transliteration
object cone
surface a
column 1
beginning broken
1'. [gu-un-gu]-nu#-um
6. [nita kal]-ga#
7. [lugal uri5{ki}-ma]-ka#-sze3#
8. [en-an-na]-tum2#-ma#
9. [en ki]-ag2# {d}nanna#
column 2
beginning broken
1'. lugal# [ki-en-gi ki-uri]
2'. e2#-[esz3-me-dagal-la]
3'. {e2}szutum# [ku3-ga-ni]
4'. mu-na#-[du3]
5. u3# nam#-[ti-la-ni-sze3]
6'. a mu#-[na-ru]
surface b
column 1
1. {d}da-gan
2. en dingir gal-gal-e-ne
3. dingir-ra-a-ni-ir
4. nam-ti
5. gu-un-gu-nu-um
6. nita kal-ga
7. lugal uri5{ki}-ma-ka-sze3
8. en#-an-na-tum2-ma#
9. en ki-ag2 {d}nanna#
column 2
beginning broken
1'. lugal# ki#-[en-gi ki-uri]
2'. e2#-esz3-[me-dagal-la]
3'. {e2#}[szutum ku3-ga-ni]
rest broken