RIME 4.03.06.06, ex. 01

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P347198.

Transliteration

[...] qa2#-ab-la#-[am ...]
[...] a#-ar up-pa-ti [...]
[...]  idigna i-na# [...]
[... bi]-ri-it ma-an-ki-zum x i-[na ...]
[...] s,i-it ma-an-ki-zum ka-ra-as-su x
[s,i-li2]-suen _lugal_  _lugal_ asz2-nun-na
[...] x-ti szu-a-ti isz-mu-u2
[...] ti-pu-usz isz-ku-nam-ma
[...] x-mesz isz-tu pa-t,i gu-ti-um a-da x
[...] x isz-te-en la i-x [...]
[...] x x x-a-tim _lugal e2-[gal_-la-tim ...]
[...] x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — RIME 4.03.06.06, ex. 01. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P347198) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P347198..

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