EA 050

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P271052.

Transliteration

a-na _munus_ bi#
_munus nin_-ia [qi2-bi2-ma]
um-ma _dumu-munus_ x
_geme2_ am-ti-[ki]
a-na 2(disz) _giri3-mesz_-pi2# sza _munus# [nin_-ia]
[7(disz)]-szu 7(disz)-ta-[a-an]
am#-qut al-[lu]-mi#
[...]
[...]
[a]-zu-ka#-ti x x
_munus nin_-ia

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — EA 050. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P271052) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P271052..

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