Position in chronology
Prag 790
Not yet translated
This tablet is catalogued with its transliteration and photographed, but no published translation exists yet. Our translation engine works through the untranslated corpus every night, oldest first — this page will update the day its turn comes. If you are a specialist and can read it, we would love your help.
The world it comes from
Aššur the merchant city — the great trade with Anatolia.
From the same catalogue range (near P359359)
Transliteration
x [...] mi3-ma# [...] a-di2 ma-[...] isz-ti _uruda_-x [...] i-na e-ra-bi# [...] [i]-na tur4-hu-mi3-it# [...] [a]-na bu-ru-usz-ha#-tim# [a?]-la2-ak / u3 x x [...] x x x
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Assyrian (ca. 1950-1850 BC)) — Prag 790. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).
Attribution
Image: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (P359359) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P359359..
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