OB Legal 031

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257879.

Transliteration

_1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar_
_sza3 2(u) 9(disz) 1/2(disz) ma-na ku3-babbar udu szu-gi-na_
sza a-na _2(disz) udu szu-gi-na_
ne-me-et-ti _enku_
zimbir-ia-ah-ru-rum
sza a-na _ugula e2-mesz_ sza _e2_ utu
in-na-ad-nu
ni-isz-rum _sza3 pisan_
a-na _nig2-ka9_-szu-nu
isz-sza-ak-ka-an
_giri3_ e-tel-pu _ku3-dim2_
_[iti apin]-du8#-a u4 9(disz)-kam_
_mu_ sa-am-su-di-ta#-na _lugal-e alan-a-ni tusz#-bi asz-ti-ta_

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 031. 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 (P257879) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257879..

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