MAD 5, 053

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215377.

Transliteration

[1(asz@c)] ti-ru#-um
sza# ti-ru-um
[1(asz@c)] utu-li-din
[1(asz@c)] pu3-su-du10
[1(asz@c)] dingir-a-zu
1(asz@c) i3-li2-dan
szu-ut i-da-suen
1(asz@c) ARAD2-su2#-[ni]
1(asz@c) ur-[...]
1(asz@c) puzur4-[...]
szu#-ut _e2#?_ [...]
[1(asz@c)] hu#?-hu#?-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — MAD 5, 053. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P215377) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215377..

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