AUCT 4, 020

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249642.

Transliteration

_1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar_
_masz2 1(disz) ma-na 1(u) 2(disz) gin2-ta-am3_
_ba-ab-dah-e_
_ki_ da-da-a
u3 suen-u2-s,e2-li
suen-be-el-i3-li2
_szu ba-an-ti_
_iti sig4-a_
_ku3 i2-la2-e_
_igi_ iszkur-sze-mi
an-pi2-suen
_iti sze-sag11-ku5_
_mu_ ha-am-mu-ra-pi2 _ma-da e-mu-ut-ba-al ba-an-dab_

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — AUCT 4, 020. 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 (P249642) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249642..

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