HSS 13, 157

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P408385.

Transliteration

_[n] sila3_ u3 1(disz) ka4-su2
[_i3]-gesz#-mesz_ sza _e2-gal_-li3
[sza ]a-kip-ta-sze-en-ni
il-qe3 u3
u2-ta-ar
_na4#_ a-kip-ta-sze-en-ni

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — HSS 13, 157. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (P408385) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P408385..

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