EA 275

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P271124.

Transliteration

[a-na _lugal en_-ia]
[_dingir]-mesz_-[ia _utu_-ia]
qi2-[bi2-ma]
um-ma ia-ah#-zi-ba-da
_ARAD2_-ka ip-ri
sza _giri3-mesz_-ka a-na _giri3-mesz_
_lugal en_-ia _dingir-mesz_-ia
_utu_-ia 7(disz)-szu 7(disz)-ta2-a-an am-qut
a-wa-at iq-ba-bi
_lugal en_-ia
[_dingir]-mesz_-ia _[utu_]-ia
[a]-na# ia-szi
[a]-nu-ma i-szu-sze-ru-szu
[a-na] _lugal en_-ia

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — EA 275. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P271124) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P271124..

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