OB Legal 036

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257916.

Transliteration

_6(disz) 1/2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_
a-na _sa10 siki_
_ki_ i3-li2-u2-sa-ti
_dumu_ ma-an-nu-um-ki-ma-dingir
ha-bil-ki-nu-um
_dumu_ be-li2-lu-da-ri
_[szu] ba-an-ti_
[a-na] _iti 1(disz)-kam_
_[iti ... u4 n]+8(disz)-kam_
_[mu_ a-bi-e-szu-uh] _lugal-e nim-gir2-nim-gir2-a ku3-sig17-ga-ke4_
[ha]-bil-[ki-nu-um]
[dumu] be-li2-lu-da-[ri]
ARAD [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 036. 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 (P257916) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257916..

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