Position in chronology
AUCT 5, 046
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249521.
Transliteration
_1(disz) [gin2 ku3-babbar_] a-[na _sa10 zu2-lum_] _ki_ ib-ni-[mar-tu] s,i-li2-utu-be-li2-ia _szu ba-an-ti_ _u4 buru14 zu2-lum_ _kar_ ib-ba-asz-szu-u2 _zu2-lum i3-ag2#-[e_] _igi_ lu2-inanna _ugula? [mar-tu_] _iti sig4-a u4 1(disz)#-[kam_] _mu_ sa-am-su-i-[lu-na _lugal] a2-ag2-ga2# [en-lil2-la2] [x] x x [...]_ lu2-[inanna] dumu x-x-[...] ARAD x-[...] u3 x-x-x-[...]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — AUCT 5, 046. 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 (P249521) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249521..
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