Position in chronology
UCP 09-02-1, 076
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P135980.
Transliteration
[...] BAD [...] _er3_ e-[...] szu#-ni-x [...] u3 mi-[...] be-li2-[...] a-na dam-gar3 i-ti-[...] a-na DI [...] [...] KA [...] 2(asz) 2(barig) 2(disz) [...] 2(asz) udul2-x [...] 1/2(disz) [...]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — UCP 09-02-1, 076. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA (P135980) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P135980..
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