Position in chronology
AuOr 09, 148 1
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P212571.
Transliteration
[...] GAN2 numun# ga2-ra a2# 2(disz) u4# x gesz PAP#-[...] [...] lu2# du8# [...] x x [...] [...] x x [...] [dub]-sar#-e# mu#-kux(DU) [...] mu# 7(disz@t) iti
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — AuOr 09, 148 1. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Montserrat Museum, Barcelona, Spain (P212571) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P212571..
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