Prag 627

~1900 BCE·Old Assyrian·P359228

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P359228.

Transliteration

_igi_ i-di2-da-gan2
_igi_ il5-ba-ni _dumu_ i-a-a
_igi_ en-um-a-szur
_dumu_ bu-ut-ki-im
si2-ki-i
iszkur-ri-bi4
u2-ka3-il5
sza la2 ha-bu-la2-ku-ni

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — Prag 627. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (P359228) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P359228..

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