CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 073

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356427.

Transliteration

[...] inim# ga#-[...]
[...] tu#-ud-en# [...]
[...]-un#-tu-[...]
[x]-bil4#-ga-mes zi-an#-[...]
[...] ma-an-pa3 [...]
[...]-un#-dab5 ki za nam#-[...]
[...]-ga-mes [...]
[x] x x en-[ki]-du10# [...]
[...]-dab5-ba ki-[...]
[...] ur2# ama-na#-[...]
[x x] dim2-ma nu#-[x]
[x x] i3#-gu7-e [...]
[...] ki#-bi-sze3# [...]
[...]-na-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 073. 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 (P356427) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356427..

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