OAIC 47

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215919.

Transliteration

_i3 gesz#_
_zi3 imgaga3_
[...]
[...]
AN#-[...]
en-ma
a-na zu-zu
a-na _sze_
_aga3-us2_
a-na _abba2_
gu-du-si-isz
_gesz i3_ ki-ti-im#
_gesz i3_

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — OAIC 47. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P215919) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215919..

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