CDLI Literary 000754, ex. 031

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356126.

Transliteration

[...]-sa#-zu-ne [...]
[...]-ta#-gal2 dumu [...]
e2# lugal-la# [...]
lu2#-tur ad-da ba#-[...]
x i-ri-DU-a nam [...]
[...] ad#-da-zu-e inim x [...]
[...]-nisaba# nin#-za# nig2#-dingir# [...]
[...] x x [...]
[...] KA x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000754, ex. 031. 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 (P356126) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356126..

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