CDLI Literary 000768, ex. 016

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·P519351

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P519351.

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000768, ex. 016. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: OIM A24195 (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA) — from uncertain (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P519351). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P519351..

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