CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 074

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P279057.

Transliteration

utu# er2#-na [...]
lu2 arhusz#-<a>-gin7 [...]
ur#-sag dumu# [...]
[x]-am3# szesz-gal-bi# [...] / umbin hu-[x]-in-[x]
[x]-ur3#-ma2-ur3 hur#-sag-ga2#-[x] / hu#-mu-ni-in#-tum2#-[x x]
[...] x x [...] / [x]-be2-e#-[...]
[...] ma-[...]
[x]-sag# 1(disz)-[...]
hur#-sag# 7(disz)#-[...] / eren# sza3#-ga#-[...]
en3 nu-un-tar ki [...]
bil4-ga-mes# [...] al-[x x]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — CDLI Literary 000365, ex. 074. 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 (P279057) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P279057..

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