Adab 0748

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From the same catalogue range (near P217517)

P217516 · ~2270 BCE

Adab 0745

“9 less 1 gur of barley — Lugal-igitab; 8 less 3 gur of barley — Lugal-ĝeš: [barley] threshed, of the plowmen, …”

P217514 · ~2270 BCE

Adab 0733

“3 gur less 1 barig of barley, in the Agade (gur-measure) — Namtur; 3 gur less 1 barig of barley — Ur-[me]; 2 g…”

P217520 · ~2270 BCE

Adab 0751

“(Obverse) [5 gur] 3 ban of [barley], 1 ban: hire of the boatman, silver for the purchase of fish; 7 gur 2 bari…”

P217521 · ~2270 BCE

Adab 0752

“(obverse) Deficit: 7 minas of bread — (of the) Emah (temple); 15 — (of the) E-GAN-ISH (house); [6] — (of the t…”

Transliteration

a-na _ensi2_
en-ma
wu-tur2-be-li2
2(u@c) _sze gur_ a-ga-de3
isz-te4
en-an-na-tum2
am3-hur

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — Adab 0748. 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: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P217517) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P217517..

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