HSS 13, 466

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P408624.

Transliteration

u3 szu-u2 [x x x] x [x x x]
um-ma [x x x] x [x x x]
2(disz) _lu2-mesz#_ [x x x] x [x x x] la x [x x x]
la e-[x x x] i? [x x x]
bi-ti x [x x x] a#-ma x [x x x]
ku-ur-ri-wa-ah#?-[x x x]
asz-bu
um-ma ke2-li-ia-[ma x x x]
a-na-ku la al-li#-[x x x]
ku-usz-szi-har-be [x x x]
na-ki-ru x [x x x]
um-ma ku-[usz-szi-har-be-ma]
[x x] la [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400-1100 BC)) — HSS 13, 466. 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 (P408624) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P408624..

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