JANES 18, 48 22

~1950 BCE·Old Babylonian·P200684

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P200684.

Transliteration

4(disz) ninda esz3
sze-ba geme2 szu bar-sze3
ki inim-nanna-ta
ba-zi
kiszib3 lu2-nin-szubur
iti kin-inanna
mu nin-dingir iszkur masz2-e i3-pa3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — JANES 18, 48 22. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: UM 55-21-103 (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) — from Nippur (mod. Nuffar) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P200684). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P200684..

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