Position in chronology
AUCT 4, 044
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249619.
Transliteration
_9(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ _szu ti-a_ utu-ha-zi-ir _ki_ da-da-a u3 suen-u2-s,e2-li i-na gesz da-ar ma-<an>-za-az?-ti _ku3 i3-la2-e_ u2-sze-te-eq-ma _masz2-bi ba-ab-dah-e_ _iti bara2-za3-gar u4 4(disz)-kam ba-zal_ _mu ki 3(u) i3-si-in ba-an-dab5_ utu-ha-zi-ir _dumu_ [x]-lu-[...] _ARAD_ nin-si4-an-na
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — AUCT 4, 044. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Siegfried H. Horn Museum, Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA (P249619) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249619..
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