EA 258

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The Kassite kings, international diplomacy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P271191)

Transliteration

a-na _lugal en_-ia
um-ma iszkur-me-hir2
_ARAD2_ ki-it-te
_lugal_ a-na _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia
7(disz)-szu u3 7(disz)-ta-a-an am-qut
gab2-bi mi-im-mi3
sza yi-te-pu-usz
_lugal en en?_-ia! a-na _kur_-szu
_saga_-qa2 ma-gal

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — EA 258. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P271191) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P271191..

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