CDLI Literary 000351, ex. 098

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356563.

Transliteration

[...]-ne na#-dib#-e#
[dara3]-an#-na [kur] umbin# ba#-e-zukum
[]nin#-urta en dumu-en-lil2-la2 a-na zi-ba mu-e-gi
a2-sag3 zi-ga-bi# szu la-ba#-gal2# dugud#-da#-bi# im-gu-ul
|KI.SU.LU!.GAR|-bi-ta# KA ib2-ta-du lu2#-bi-sze3# igi la#-ba-e3
ur5-re# kal-ga-bi sag# im-gi tukul#-e gisz la-ba-ab-sig2
nin-urta |SZEN.SZEN#|-ne2# szukur-mah#-e! su-bi nu-dar-dar
ur-sag na-ra#-dim2# na-ra-dim2
en me-mah#-a# a2#-U2#-su3-su3
sze-er-zi me-te#-dingir-re-e-[ne]
gu4-musz3-ba am-gal# SIG4-tuku lal3-gal#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000351, ex. 098. 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 (P356563) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356563..

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