CDLI Literary 000751, ex. 037

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356496.

Transliteration

[...] x 1(szar2)# [...]
[...] x ki-sze3 5(bur3) x [...]
[...] alim# ki-sze3 lu-lim#
[...] x ki-sze3 dara3-masz#
[...]-x-dar-a ki-sze3 dara3-masz-[...]
[...]-ga# ki-sze3 u5-gin7#-[...]
[...] ki-sze3 nanna-x [...]
[...] [...]
[...] x x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000751, 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 (P356496) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356496..

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