EA 061

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P270883.

Transliteration

[a-na ]_lugal# utu en_-ia
[um]-ma ARAD2-a-szi-ir-te _ARAD2_-[ka4]
[u3?] t,i-id _giri3#-hi-a#_-ka4 _ur-[gi7_]
sza# _e2 lugal en_-ia a-na#
[_giri3?-mesz?] lugal#? [en?_]-ia#? nu?-[...]
[...] x x _ARAD2_ [...]
[_iri_] ul?-la?-asz-sze? a-na#
[...] _iri_ s,u-mu-ri[ ...]
[x] gab2#?-ba2 _kur mar-tu#_
[...] _lugal# utu en_-ia#
[...] _lugal utu en_-ia [...]
[...] u3 a-wa-tam li-te-[ra]
[...] a-na _ARAD2_-szu [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — EA 061. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P270883) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P270883..

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