Position in chronology
HSS 10, 194
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P213459.
Transliteration
[...] x [...] [...] x x [...] [...] x x [...] _gurusz#_ [...]-gu#-usz [...]-ki-hi [...]-hi [...]-x [...]-x [n] 4(asz@c) _geme2_ [...]-si11-la-tum [n] x nisz2-be [n] 5(asz@c) _geme2_ in# ga-sur2#
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — HSS 10, 194. 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 (P213459) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P213459..
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