Position in chronology
RA 059, 047 no. 21
Not yet translated
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The world it comes from
Aššur the merchant city — the great trade with Anatolia.
From the same catalogue range (near P390562)
Transliteration
4(disz) _ma-na_ 1(u) 3(disz) 1/2(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_ sza i-s,u2-ur-tim pa2-ni-tim sza# sa3-ha-ar-tim 5(disz) _tug2 sag10_ 2(disz) _ma-na_ szi2-im-szu-nu 1(u) 2(disz) _tug2_ sza qa2-tim 3(disz) _ma-na_ 4(disz) 1/2(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_ a-na da-la2-asz2 2/3(disz) _ma-na_ 5(disz) _gin2_ a-na na-pa2-hi-im sza a-le-e u2-pu-szu 7(disz) 1/2(disz) _gin2 ku3-babbar_ a-na ta2-mi3-sze2-e-et 1/2(disz) _ma-na ku3-babbar_ szi2-im 1(disz) _tug2_ ra-qi2-tim
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — RA 059, 047 no. 21. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland (P390562) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P390562..
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