CDLI Literary 000335, ex. 050

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P346454.

Transliteration

[...] x x [...]
[...] za#-gin3 u4 kar2#-[...]
[...] abzu#-am3 ul am3# x-[...]
[...] ku3# galam du11-ga abzu-ta e3#-[...]
[...] nu-dim2-mud-ra mu-un-na-[...]
[...] ku3#-ga i-ni-in-du3 za-gin3-na# [...]
[...]-le#-esz ku3-si2-ga szu tesz2-bi ba#?-[...]
[...]-ga e2# gu2-a bi2-in-[...]
[...]-bi# inim du11-du11 ad gi4#-[...]
[...]-bi gu4-gin7 murum i-im#?-[...]
[...]-ke4#? gu3 nun [...]
[...]-ir# ge6 ri im-ma#-[...] du10#-bi mu-un#-[...]
[...] sukkal# |SIG7#?.X.X| [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000335, ex. 050. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P346454) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P346454..

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