OAIC 06

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215878.

Transliteration

1(asz@c) da-lim _ugula iri_
u3 1(asz@c) _geme2_-zu
1(asz@c) ip-ti-um
1(asz@c) sipa-i3-tum
1(asz@c) ma-szum
1(asz@c)# i3-la-la
szunigin 6(asz@c) _abba2_-bu-ut
_sze GA gu7_
_sze_ sza na-s,i2-ir-i3-li
e-mu-ru

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — OAIC 06. 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 (P215878) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215878..

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