Sumerian·Book

Position in chronology

~1300 BCE
Ubaid
5500
Uruk
4000
ED
2900
Akkad
2334
Ur III
2112
Old Bab.
2000
Old Assyrian
2000
Mid. Bab.
1600
Middle Assyrian
1400
Neo-Assyr.
911
Neo-Bab.
626
Achaemenid
539

EA 258

~1300 BCE·Middle Babylonian·P271191

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial
Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P271191.

Transliteration

a-na _lugal en_-ia
um-ma iszkur-me-hir2
_ARAD2_ ki-it-te
_lugal_ a-na _giri3-mesz lugal en_-ia
7(disz)-szu u3 7(disz)-ta-a-an am-qut
gab2-bi mi-im-mi3
sza yi-te-pu-usz
_lugal en en?_-ia! a-na _kur_-szu
_saga_-qa2 ma-gal

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — EA 258. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P271191) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P271191..

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