CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 058

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356707.

Transliteration

[x x]-sze3!(KU) bi2-in-gar# [...]
[x] ama ugu-gu10 AN#-[...]-a#-gu10 kug lugal#-[x x]
[x]-ub# ama ugu-<gu10> nin-sun2-ka u3-di-de3 ha#-ba#-[x x]
[x x]-ma-sze3 in NA ga-nam-mu-na-ab-be2
zi# ama AMA-ugu-<gu10> nin-sun2-ka [x x]-gu10 ku3 lugal-ban3-da
[...]-u18#-lu he2-a im-zu he2#-a# dingir he2-a#-[x x]
giri3# SZE3 kur-sze3 gub-ba-gu10 iri-sze3 ba-ra-gub-be2-en#
ARAD2# zi an-du10 nam-ti ba-an-ku7!(USZ)-ku7
lugal#-a-ni-ir inim mu-ni-ib-gi4-gi4
[x]-gu10 za-e lu2-ba nu-mu#-ni-du8-a sza3 nu-mu-ni-in-dab5#-TE-am3
[x]-e lu2-ba igi i-ni-du8-a sza3 mu-[x x]-in-dab5-ba

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 058. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq (P356707) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P356707..

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