CDLI Literary 000751, ex. 034

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356380.

Transliteration

[...] x [...]
[...] e me [...]
[...] SZUB x x [...]
[...] x x MU# [...] NI x UN# x [...]
[...] x SZESZ NE KUSZ x [...]
[...] GA2 BU BI x x [...] x x [...]
[...]-sag#-ga2 nin-bi# x [...] mu#-un-tusz#
[...]-ginx# rib-ba lu2 szi-in-ni#-[...]
[...]-bi aszgi rib-ba [...] szi-in-ga-u3-tu#
[...] nin#-tu-bi rib-ba a#-[...] mu#-ni-in-[...]
[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000751, ex. 034. 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 (P356380) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356380..

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