OB Legal 070

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258825.

Transliteration

_1(asz) sze gur_
_ban2_ utu
_sza3 sa10 siki_
sza u2-tul2-esz18-dar _dub-sar#_
_ki_ suen-isz-me-a-ni
u3 ib-ni-utu
_dumu-mesz_ a-wi-li-ia
e-ri-isz-tum
_dumu-munus_ utu-be-el-i3-li2#
_szu# ba-an-ti_
_u4 [buru14-sze3]_
a-[na ...]
_iti [...]_
_mu_ am-mi-[di-ta-na _lugal-e] lamma-lamma x-[...]_
_kiszib3_ e-ri-isz-tum

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 070. 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 (P258825) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258825..

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