OB Legal 059

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258663.

Transliteration

1(barig) ak-ba-ri
1(barig) 1(ban2) sa-am-si-ra-ah
3(ban2) szar-rum-ba-ni
2(ban2) i-ta-wi-ir
2(ban2) utu-i-de
1(ban2) dumu-munus-er-s,e-tim
3(ban2) sig-er-s,e-tim

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 059. 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 (P258663) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258663..

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