JCS 69, 067-108 04

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P406695.

Transliteration

_1(u) sze [gur]_
a-na e-s,e-e-di#-[im]
sza _e2_ il-ta-ni _lukur_ utu
_dumu-munus lugal_
lu2-iszkur-ra
_dumu_ i3-li2-u2-sa-ti
_[szu] ba-an-ti_
[_u4] buru14#-sze3_
[_kiszib3_] lu2#-iszkur-ra

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 69, 067-108 04. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P406695) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P406695..

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