TMH 05, 086

~2400 BCE·Early Dynastic·P020500

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P020500.

Transliteration

[n] gu4
ki sag-en-lil2-da-ta
1(u@c) udu ki a-ul4-gal-ta
nidba
sar-um#-gi-kam
ab-gu7
iti ziz2-a
mu uru18!(|URUxMIN|) hul-a

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — TMH 05, 086. 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 (P020500) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P020500..

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