TMH 05, 147

~2270 BCE·Akkadian Empire·P020561

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Transliteration

4(asz@c) har
1(asz@c) szen-dun-tag uruda
1(asz@c) szu-la2 uruda
1(u@c) 1(asz@c) zabar uruda
4(asz@c) e2-sar
1(esze3@c) 2(iku@c) GAN2 pa5 esz2-gar3
4(iku@c) GAN2 szuku-dun
1(esze3@c) 2(iku@c) GAN2 adab
5(iku@c) GAN2 gesz-gu2
3(iku@c) GAN2 gu2-ka-igi
nig2-gur11 ur-du6-ka-kam
lugal-abzu-a
lu2 azlag2 ba-de6

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — TMH 05, 147. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Hilprecht Collection, University of Jena, Germany (P020561) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P020561..

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