Lippmann Coll 299

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P472599.

Transliteration

1(asz@c) inim-ma-ni-zi
1(asz@c) gala
dumu ur-ba
1(asz@c) e2-dam
1(asz@c) lugal-al#-kal
1(asz@c) da#-da
1(asz@c) giri3-ne2
dumu# lugal-al-<kal>-me
[1(asz@c)] gala
dumu ur#-na-ru2-a
[1(asz@c)] ur#-isztaran
1(asz@c) ur-ur
1(asz@c) az
dumu a-ba-mu-na
szunigin 1(u@c) dam-gar3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — Lippmann Coll 299. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: CL 206 (Carl L. Lippmann Collection, Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, Spain) — from Adab (mod. Bismaya) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P472599). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P472599..

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