BE 06/1, 040

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258499.

Transliteration

_1(disz) mar uruda_
_2(disz) mar-HI_
_2(disz) u3-szub sig4 al-ur3-ra_
2(disz) me-sze-qum
_1(u) dupsik-hi-a_
_nig2-szu_ ip-qa2-tum _dumu_ pa-hal-li-im
iszkur-ma-an-szum
_dumu_ e-te-ia-tum
ma#-hi-ir
_e2-gal_ i-pa-al
_iti sig4-a u4 5(disz)-kam_
_mu bad3 kar-utu_ u3 ra#-pi2-qum

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — BE 06/1, 040. 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 (P258499) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P258499..

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