OB Legal 101

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·P262074

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P262074.

Transliteration

_iti gar-NE-NE-bi_
_u4# 2(u)-kam_
_1(disz) am-tum SA6?
_giri3_ ma-ad-du-mu-uq-sza

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 101. 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 (P262074) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P262074..

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