PBS 07, 128

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257875.

Transliteration

[... szar]-ra#-tum ra-bi-tum
[sza na-ap-lu]-us#-sa3 ba-la-t,u2
[...] x KI el-la-am
[...] x DA? ri-ma
[...] x x an#-ni-tim
[isz-tu] _mu# 1(disz)-kam_ e-ri-ib-ti a-di _iti apin-du8-a u4 3(u)-kam_
sza#-al-ma-ku ba-al-t,a-ku
sza#-la-mi ba-la-t,i
[i]-na# pi2-i be-el-ti-ia qa2-bi-i
[x]-x-am u3 e-pe2#-sza-am an-ni-a-am
[...] x-na-mi an-nu-ut-tim sza MU AN x TU-a-ar
[...] a-na ARAD2 an-ni-i
[...] te#-er-tam sza a-na ta-wi-ti-sza#
[sza]-al-ma-at
[...]-ka-ti li-isz-ku-nam

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — PBS 07, 128. 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 (P257875) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P257875..

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