OAIC 48

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215920.

Transliteration

li-bur
_aszgab_
in# _a-ga2_
_ninda i3_
_zi3 gug2_
in# _a-ga2_
be-li2-[...]
tab#-ri#-um
_e2-muhaldim_
[...]-at _sze_
_sze_ li?-si
[...]
tug2 gu-zi-ti-[im]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)) — OAIC 48. 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 (P215920) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P215920..

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