OB Legal 084

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P259026.

Transliteration

_1(u)# 2(asz) sze gur gu2-un 1(bur3) GAN2 a-sza3_
sza suen-i-qi2-sza-am _gal-ukken-na_
_1(bur3) 2(iku) GAN2 gu2-un hi-a nu-kiri6-mesz_
u3 _lu2-mesz_ er-re-szi a-hi-e ma-la il-li-ku-u2
_3(u) 6(asz) sze gur_ sza a-na suen-isz-me-a-ni
i-na pa-ni _enku_ x-ru-BI ad-di-nu-szum-ma
la id-di-nam
_1(u) gin2 ku3-babbar utu#-illat-su2 _lu2-lunga_
i-na e-mu-qi2-im i-na# qa2-ti x-[...]
il-qu2-u2 isz-tu a?-[...]
ma-har be-li2-ia [...]
x x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 084. 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 (P259026) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P259026..

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