Position in chronology
LKU 012
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From the same catalogue range (near P414154)
Transliteration
[a-a] dim3#-me-er-e#-[ne-ke4 ...] [en]-e# mas-su3 szu [...] [ki]-sikil# inanna hi-li-bi# [...] [na]-nam# gi-na-zu an-gin7# [...] in#-nin dim3-me-er#? hi#?-[li-bi ...] ki#-szar2 gidlam# e#-[da-sa2 ...] [ug3]-ga2# u3-bi2-tab a2-[ag2 ...] [esz2]-giri17# an-ki-a asza-ne [...] [an]-na#-ra inim-bal bar# [...] [ku3 ]inanna#-ke4# sza3 sig6-[ga-na ...] [a2-ag2]-ga2# nam-an-na#-[mu ...] [bulug ki-us2-sa]-mu# bar#-[be2 ...]
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC) ?) — LKU 012. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P414154) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P414154..
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