OB Legal 100

~1800 BCE·Old Babylonian·P262073

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P262073.

Transliteration

_1/2(disz) gin2 ku3-babbar_
_sza3 ku3-babbar igi-sa2 lu2-kurun2-na-mesz_
sza _mu_ am-mi-s,a-du-qa2 _lugal-e_
_gub du8 mah gal-gal-la_
_mu-kux(DU)_
tam-la-tum
nam-har-ti#
marduk-mu-ba-li2-it,#
_giri3_ na-bi-um-mu-sza-lim#
u3 i-lu-ni
_iti gu4-si-sa2 u4 1(u) 7(disz)-kam_
_mu_ am-mi-s,a-du-qa2 _lugal-e gub du8 mah gal-gal-la_

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — OB Legal 100. 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 (P262073) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P262073..

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