Lippmann Coll 248

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From the same catalogue range (near P472548)

P472546 · ~2270 BCE

Lippmann Coll 246

“20 hides, dag-ga (soaked/prepared) — Ur-a2, the chief tanner (aszgab gal); 21 hides, dag-ga (soaked/prepared) …”

P472550 · ~2270 BCE

Lippmann Coll 250

“2 hides of oxen, 7 hides of donkeys, 3(+n) hides of lions, 20 hides of sheep, 3 sila of pig fat (lard) — havin…”

P472545 · ~2270 BCE

Lippmann Coll 245

“[4(gešʼ×60)] 10 5 [hides of] sheep (= 255 sheep hides) He-dabra — were given (to him). 30 hides of sheep — Ur-…”

P472551 · ~2270 BCE

Lippmann Coll 251

“[n] sila3 of lard (pig-fat). 20 sheep hides — (in) Dugan[...], the governor — he processed (it). 1/3 sila3 of …”

Transliteration

2(asz@c) kusz gu4
4(u@c) kusz udu
1(u@c) 5(asz@c) kusz udu
i3# ab-ak
[ur]-a2
aszgab

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — Lippmann Coll 248. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: CL 339 (Carl L. Lippmann Collection, Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, Spain) — from Adab (mod. Bismaya) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P472548). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P472548..

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