N 3861

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P230574.

Transliteration

[lu2 ]szedu#? tuku# = %a [...]
[lu2 ]lama# tuku = %a sza la#-[ma-sa3-am i-szu-u2]
[lu2 ...]-ti#?-il = %a a-wi-il# [la-ma-si2]
[lu2 tesz2] tuku#? = %a sza bu#-usz#-[tam i-szu-u2]
[lu2 tesz2 nu-tuku] = %a sza# bu-usz#-[tam la i-szu-u2]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — N 3861. 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 (P230574) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P230574..

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