CDLI Literary 000351, ex. 095

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P263561.

Transliteration

[...] nir#-gal2
[...] [usu]-mah#-tuku kur a-ga-na |DU.DU|
[...] [nu]-kuszu2#-u3 ki-bala-a ga2-ga2
[...] ti-na gub-bu
[...] mi-tum-sze3 gal2
[...] sze-gin7 KIN su-bu
[nin-urta lugal dumu] a#-a-ni kal-ga-ni-sze3 hul2-la
[...] kur#-ra dul-lu
[...]-na# igi# nim#-gir2# du7#-[du7]
[...] []en#-lil2#-[...]
[lugal-gu10 kal]-ga-zu-sze3 ad mu-e#-szi#-[ib-gi4]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000351, ex. 095. 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 (P263561) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P263561..

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