JAC 29, 023-030 05

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P478825.

Transliteration

igi suen-x-x
igi u-bar-x
igi ut-ma-tum
igi su-bu-um
igi du-si-sza
mu ha-am-mu-ra-pi2 lugal in-pa3

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JAC 29, 023-030 05. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Hammurabi y1 — Hammurabi became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Attribution

Image: Anonymous 478825 (private: anonymous, Jerusalem) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P478825). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P478825..

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