EA 190

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P270880.

Transliteration

[...] _kur lugal en#_-[ka]
[us,-s,ur-mi ]pu#-hu-ri _lu2_ ra#-[bi-i]
[_iri_ ...]-ra-sza u3 us,-s,ur#-[mi]
[_iri_ qi3-id]-szi u3 us,-s,ur#-[mi]
[_iri_ ku-mi]-di _iri_ ma-s,a-ar-[ti _lugal_]
[...] szi-mu a-na a-wa-ti sza#
[ta-aq-bu]-ma al-la-ka ku-[...]
[...] _gigir-mesz_-ia u3 [...]
[...] _iszib_ u3 qi2-pa u3 [...]
[...] har# _sag_-szi masz-[...]
[...]-te-_mesz#_-szi qa-du _lu2_ [...]
[...]-_mesz_-szi qa-du#

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — EA 190. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P270880) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P270880..

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