OB Legal 060

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258669.

Transliteration

_erin2 & sze & mu-ni_
_4(disz) & 1(barig) 2(ban2) & dumu_ pa-hal-lu-um
_8(disz) erin2-mesz_
_2(barig) 4(ban2) sze_
_nam-1(u)_ ip-qa2-tum
_dumu_ pa-hal-lu-um
_iti NE-NE#-[gar u4 n]+1(u)-kam_
_mu_ ha#-[am-mu-ra-pi2 _lugal-e ...] KI# [...] x
dingir-szu-ba-ni dam-gar3
dumu i-bi-nin-szubur
ARAD nig2 nin-szubur

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 060. 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 (P258669) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258669..

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