EA 236

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P270881.

Transliteration

[... a]-nu#-[um-ma]
[_lu2 iri_] ak#-ka _lu2_ nu-kur3#-[ti]
[x x lu]-u2 il-qa-an-ni#
[...] an x x lu-u2 [...]
[...] x ti lu-u2 i [...]
[...] _lugal_ [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — EA 236. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (P270881) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P270881..

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