Letters 130

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Source: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P276912.

Why it matters

Transliteration

[]en-lil2-mas-su dimma ad gi4 za
ka# lal3 inim gun3-gun3-nu-ra u3#-na-a-du11
[dumu] dingir-ra-ni-ir gub-ba a-a ama-ni# ir? ni2# te-ge26-ra u3-na-de3-tah#
[]alad# lamma dingir kal-la#-[mu] ulutim2# alan zil2#-[zil2-i]
[me-te] nam-dub#-[sar-ra]
[x x x]
[sza3-mu mu-da-szub enmen2 sza3-gar-mu] ba-tur
[nam-zu] ib2-gu7-en [i-si-isz-zu ib2-si-ge-en]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — Letters 130. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (P276912) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P276912..

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