CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 014

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P262875.

Transliteration

en-e kur lu2 ti-la-sze3 gesztu2#-ga-ni# [...]
en bil3-ga-mes kur lu2 ti-la-sze3 gesztu2#-[...]
arad-da-ni en-ki-du10-ra gu3 mu-un-na-de2#-[x]
en-ki-du10 murgu2 gurusz ti#-[...]
[x]-ra ga-am3#-ku4 mu-gu10# ga-am3-gar
[...]-ba#-am3 mu-gu10 ga-bi2-ib-gub
[...]-ba#-am3 mu# digir-re-e-ne ga-bi2-ib-gub
[...] inim mu-ni-ib-gi4-gi4
[...]-bi kur-ra i-in#-ku4-ku4-de3 [...]
[...]-bi2#-[x x]
[...]-e-ne ga-bi2-ib#-[x]
[x x] er2#-na szu ba#-[x-x]-in#-ti
[x] arhusz#-a-gin7 arhusz# [x x]-in-ak
[x]-sag# dumu ama dili [x]-me-esz

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 014. 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 (P262875) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P262875..

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