VS 26, 193

~1900 BCE·Old Assyrian·P358320

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P358320.

Transliteration

[asz2]-ta#-pa2-ra-ku#
[um-ma a]-na-ku-ma 1(disz) _tug2_ [...]
[...] i-a-ti2 mu-hu#-[...]
[...] _tug2# hi-a_ lu-ta-e-[...]
[...] x ma-ti2-ma [...]
[...]-al-sza ma-la2 qa2-[...]
[...] a-hi a-ta i-hi-id# [...]
[...] x-ra-am la2-ta-ha# [...]
[...] u2 _tug2 hi-a_ lu-ta-e-ru# [...]
[...] x x sza-ti2 wa-aq [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — VS 26, 193. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: VAT 06199 (Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany) — from Kanesh (mod. Kültepe) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P358320). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P358320..

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