OB Legal 055

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258635.

Transliteration

_[n] zu2-lum sig5#_
_gu2-un kiri6_
me-er-si-ia
_ki_ a-na-tum
u4-um i-ri-szu-ma#
i-na-di-in
_igi_ utu-ha-zir
_igi_ e-ri-ib-sin
_iti NE-NE u4 3(u)-kam_
_[mu ...]_

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 055. 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 (P258635) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258635..

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