OB Legal 016

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257720.

Transliteration

asz#-szum? TUM tu [...]
[i]-ta _a-sza3_ na-ra-[...]
u3# i-ta _a-sza3_ bu-x-[...]
x _sag-bi_ me-ab-zu
x _sag-bi_ a-na ha-ra-x [...]
zi#-ti dingir-szu-ba-ni _dumu_ szu-[ub-dingir]
dingir-szu-ba-ni _dumu_ szu-ub-dingir
na-ra-am-suen _sanga dumu_ x-[...]
i-sza-am a-na szi-mi-szu [...]
_ku3#-babbar_ isz-qu2-ul bu-ka#-[nam]
szu-tu-uq a-wa-su2 [gam-ra-at]
a-na wa-ar-ki-at [u4-mi]
dingir-szu-ba-ni x [...]
x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 016. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P257720) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257720..

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