Position in chronology
AUCT 4, 066
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249598.
Transliteration
_1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ a-na _sa10 sze munu4_ _ki_ i-ku-un-pi4-[za-ba4]-ba4# e-tel-pi4-suen# [...]-x-x _szu ba-an-ti-esz_ _ki-lam al-gen-[a-gin7]_ _sze i3-ag2-[e-esz]_ _igi_ ri-im-iszkur _igi_ ip-qa2-tum ra-bi-[a-num] _iti apin-du8-a u4 1(u) 2(disz)-kam_ _mu_ sa-am-su-i-lu-na _lugal a2-ag2-ga2 en-lil2-la2_ x x x x _dumu_ [...] _ARAD_ mar-tu
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — AUCT 4, 066. 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 (P249598) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249598..
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