OB Legal 083

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258996.

Transliteration

_1(disz) gin2 igi-6(disz)-gal2 ku3-babbar na4_ utu
a-na _sa10 i3-gesz_
_ki_ ip-qu2-an-nu-ni-tum
_dumu_ ib-ni-utu
[]zimbir-li#-wi#-ir _ma2-lah5_
_igi#_ be-el#-szu#-nu#
_dumu_ e-tel-pi4-na-bi-[um]
_igi_ ARAD#-ku-bi _dumu_ utu-na-s,i-ir
_iti udru u4 1(u) 5(disz)-kam_
_mu#_ am-mi-s,a-du-qa2# _lugal alan-a-ni masz2 igi-du8-a szu-a an-da-gal2-la_
_kiszib3#_ zimbir-li#-wi-ir
_kiszib3_ be-el-szu-nu

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 083. 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 (P258996) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258996..

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