OB Legal 035

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257914.

Transliteration

_[n sze gur]_
_[ba-ri2-ga_ marduk] sza# [nam-har-tim]
szi-i-iq me-sze-qi2-im kab-ri#-[im]
_sza3 sze_-e _gu2-un hi-a ensi2-mesz_
sza _e2_ il-ta-ni _lukur_ utu _dumu-munus lugal_
_nig2-szu_ marduk-la-ma-sa3-szu _szu-i_
sza i-na _a-sza3 1(esze3) 3(iku) GAN2-e_
i-li-a-am-ma
i-na _kislah bara2_ utu sza _nu-ur2-ma_
i-na qa2-ti sa3-ni-iq-pi4-en-lil2 _ensi2 dumu_ dingir-szu-ib-ni
im-ma-ah-ru
_kaskal_ iszkur-ma-an-szum2 x [(x)]
ARAD2-i3-li2#-szu# x-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 035. 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 (P257914) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257914..

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