Position in chronology
OSP 1, 054
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P216111.
Transliteration
1(asz@c) kasz bahar2 1(asz@c) ur-utu [... asz]-ni [...] szitim# 1(asz@c) ad-da 1(asz@c) MI#?-lu2-lu2 2(asz@c) puzur4-esz18-dar 1(asz@c) lu2-lugal# 1(asz@c) lu2-[u5] erisz2#[] [...] lu2 [...] 1(asz@c) lu2 [...] iti sig4-u5-szub-ba-gar u4 2(u@c) la2 1(asz@c)
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — OSP 1, 054. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P216111) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P216111..
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