Position in chronology
AUCT 4, 080
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249587.
Transliteration
_1(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ _szu ti-a_ li-pi2-it-mar-tu _ki_ suen-u2-s,e2-li _sza3-ba 5(disz) 5/6(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_ sza e-li-i-szu i-szu-u2 _igi_ in-bi-isz8-tar2 da-da-a _iti szu-numun-a u4 1(u)-kam_ _mu ugnim esz3-nun-na tukul ba-an-sag3
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — AUCT 4, 080. 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 (P249587) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249587..
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