CDLI Literary 000782, ex. 052

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356389.

Transliteration

[...] lu2 x [...]
[...] na-ab#-sa10-sa10
[...]-da im#-[...]
[...]-tar im-la2
[...] sze-si mu-un-sa6-[x]
[...] e2 dur2-bi-sze3 mu-un-[x]
[...] buru14# im-su#-su#
[...] TUR-ESZ2 [...] da# nu-sa2
[...]-ni-ib-dal-dal-e
[...] inim# i3-szid-e
[...]-ni#-ra ga mu-[...]
[...] gi4#-gi4#-[x]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000782, ex. 052. 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 (P356389) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356389..

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