CDLI Literary 000782, ex. 070

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P278661.

Transliteration

dumu-mu GAN2 e# [...]
al-dur5 kur6#-[...]
nig2 u2-gu de2-[...]
uruda?-gin2-dilmun-[...]
ur nu-zu hul#-[...]
[x] nu#-zu# [...]
dingir kur-ra lu2 gu7-[gu7-u3-me-esz]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000782, ex. 070. 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 (P278661) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P278661..

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