AUCT 4, 094

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249574.

Transliteration

_3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_
_ku3-babbar sze-sag11-ku4_
_kiszib_ be-la-nu-um
_dumu_ suen-e-ri-ba-am
u2-s,i-is-su?-bu-um
x x x
[...]
_dumu_ nu-ur2-[...]
_ARAD_ x-ti-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — AUCT 4, 094. 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 (P249574) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P249574..

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