OIP 014, 073

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P222259.

Transliteration

1(asz@c) sud3-menx(|GA2xEN|)
1(asz@c) masz
gal5-la2-gal
di i3-da-du11-ga
1(asz@c) mes-e2-zi-da
dumu lugal-u4-su13-sze3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340 BC)) — OIP 014, 073. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P222259) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P222259..

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