MAD 1, 331

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215158.

Transliteration

1(asz@c) 1(barig@c) sze gur sag-gal2
su-ba-ri2-tum
1(asz@c) 1(barig@c) ta2-asz2-qi3-tum
1(asz@c) 1(barig@c) ta-ta
1(asz@c) 1(barig@c) tu-da-szar-li-bi2-isz
5(asz@c)#? sze gur
[esz18]-dar-nu-id
1(u@c) 2(asz@c) udu 1(asz@c) asz2-gar3
sze-ba 1(asz@c) 1(barig@c) 1(ban2@c) 5(asz@c) sila3 sze gur
[n sze gur] sag#-gal2
[...]
dam da-da#?
[iti ha]-lu5#-ut

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — MAD 1, 331. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P215158) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215158..

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