OB Legal 050

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258551.

Transliteration

_6(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_
i-li-ik _ugula gidri_-tim
sza tam-la-tum _sanga_ inanna kisz
sza isz-tu _iti NE#-NE-gar u4 1(disz)-kam#_
a-di _iti ab-e3# u4 3(u)-kam_
_mu-kux(DU)_
tam-la-tum _sanga_ inanna kisz
nam-ha-ar-ti
utu-ga-mil _dumu_ ip-qu2-[...]
_erin2_ de-ku-u2#
_iti ab-e3 u4 3(u)-[kam]_
_[mu_ am]-mi-s,a-du-qa2 _lugal-[e] []ki-lugal-gub i3-mah#-[a hur]-sag didli-a i7-da i3-[me-esz-a-bi]_

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 050. 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 (P258551) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258551..

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