EA 310

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P271139.

Transliteration

[...] in#
[...] is#
[... a]-nu-ma
[a-na-sa-ru _iri]_
[_lugal en_-ia sza] it#-ti-ia
[...]-mi
[u usz-szi-ra]-am# _lugal_
[_en_-ia a-na] ia#-szi
[...] me
[...] nu# a-[nu]-ma#
[...] a-wa#-_te#-mesz#_
[_lugal en_-ia] _[utu_-ia]
[_utu_ isz-tu] _an_
[...] x me# [...]
[...] sza#-am#

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — EA 310. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P271139) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P271139..

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