CDLI Literary 000371, ex. 025

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Experimental

Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P278542.

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Transliteration

[...] lugal#-e szuruppak#[ ...]
[...] lugal-e mu 1(szar'u) in#-[ak]
[... lugal]-e#? mu 1(szar'u) 2(szar2) in-[ak]
[... lugal-e]-ne mu 2(szar'u@v) 2(szar2) in-ak#
[...] lugal#-e-ne mu-bi-e-ne mu 1(szargal@v) 4(szar'u@v) in#-[ak]
[...] hul-bi gig [...]
[... inim?]-e#? se3-se3-ke-e-de3 sza3-ga [... kusz2?]
[...] esz-bar mi-ni-ib#?-[...]
[...] a-na-am3 me-a? [...]
[... esz?]-bar gi-gi-ne# [...]
[...] x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000371, ex. 025. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P278542) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P278542..

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