OAIC 01

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215873.

Transliteration

1(asz@c) i3-li2-gal _sanga_
1(asz@c) zu-zu
1(asz@c) i3-lu-lu
1(asz@c) e-nam-ra
1(asz@c) hu-li-um
1(asz@c) i3-la-la
[1(asz@c)] e2-a-i3-li2
1(asz@c) dan-i3-li
szunigin 1(u@c) la2 2(asz@c) _abba2_-bu-ut
mu-tu-tu
_e2_ a-na dingir-a-zu
isz-du-da

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — OAIC 01. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P215873) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215873..

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