CDLI Literary 000792, ex. 004

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356393.

Transliteration

[dumu lugal-szuba] dam-[gar3-ra-ke4]
[]nergal#-[ra]
[ha-zi-in an-na] mu-na-[ni-in-dim2]
[gisz]-bi# ar-ga#-[nu-um hur-sag-ga2]
a#-lal3-e [diri-ga-am3]
[na4]-bi an-ta#-[sur-ra-am3]
gaba#-ri nu#-[tuku-am3]
[he2]-sag3#-ge a2#-[ni na-an-kusz2-u3]
[he2]-eb2-ta-hasz-e# [ga-mu-na-ab-silim]
[u2]-gu he2-ni-ib-[de2-e ki-bi ga-mu-na-ab-gi4]
[u4] ti-la-ga2 igi hu#-[mu-un-du8]
[u4] ba#-ug7-e? ku4-[ra]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000792, ex. 004. 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 (P356393) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356393..

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