OB Legal 082

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258993.

Transliteration

_3(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_
ku-nu-uk a-ha-nir-szi
_sza3 la2-ia3 ma-da_
ba-ab-bi-li
nam-ha-ar-ti
iszkur-na-s,i-ir
_[iti ... u4 n-kam]_
_[mu_ ...] ia#-di#-ha#-bu#-um# u3# mu-ti#-[...] szita2 husz-a-na gesz-hasz in-ne-ak#-[a]_
[...]
dumu utu-na-s,i-[ir]
ARAD na-bi-um

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 082. 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 (P258993) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258993..

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