HSS 10, 087

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P213353.

Transliteration

[...] _sze# gur_
4(u@c) 2(barig@c) 3(ban2@c) _ziz2 gur_
_sze gesz ra-a_
szu-esz18-dar
in masz-kan2-gal
zu-zu
_sa12-du5_

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — HSS 10, 087. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P213353) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P213353..

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