CDLI Literary 000481, ex. 037

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P227644.

Transliteration

[1(disz)] () DAH# = %a re-du#?
1(disz) () DAH = %a ru-u4-du-u
1(disz) () DAH = %a t,e3-hu-u2-um
1(disz) () DAH = %a ta-hu-um
1(disz) () DAH = %a ri-a-bu
1(disz) () DAH = %a ta-ap-pu-u
1(disz) u2-du-un# [|U.MU|] = %a u2#-tu-nu
1(disz) ku-ul KUL = %a isz#-ba#-ab-tum
1(disz) () KUL = %a a-ku#-lum
1(disz) () KUL = %a a#-ma#?-rum
1(disz) () KUL = %a di-qa3-rum
1(disz) () KUL = %a la-ka-dum
1(disz) () KUL = %a la#-al#-la-szu
[1(disz) () ] KUL# = %a [...]-ak-ku
[1(disz) ...] = %a [...]-tum

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000481, ex. 037. 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 (P227644) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P227644..

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