CDLI Literary 000651, ex. 002

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P278602.

Transliteration

[...] x#
[...] la?#
[...] x#
[...] x# x#
[...] x# a  x
[...] x# a#?
[...] ib2#-ib2#-a-[...]
nu11-gal zalag-ga [...] hasz4-na mu#-[...]
sig2-SUD-gi6-ga in#-[...] gal4-la-na mu#-[...]
HUB2-HUB2-be2-du7-a x [...] me-ri-si-na ru-na-mu-un-ga2-ga2
sa-gi7#-da-am3#
lu2# du6#-ra za#-gin3# de5#-de5#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000651, ex. 002. 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 (P278602) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P278602..

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