N 2469

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P228140.

Transliteration

[...] x x [...]
[...] banszur za3-gu2-[la2 ...]
[...] TUR-x [...]
[...] muru5-za-nu-[um ...]
[...] in#-na-an-[...]
[...] u4 ti-la-ni-sze3#? [...]
[...] igi#?-ni-sze3 i3-x-[...]
[...] u4# kur2-sze3 ibila x-[...]
[...] x-ni-sze3 [...]
[...] x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — N 2469. 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 (P228140) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P228140..

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