UET 5, 0059

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P414963.

Transliteration

[a]-na# [...]
qi2-bi2#-[ma]
um-ma ARAD-suen-ma#
asz-szum _ku3-sig17_ ku-nu-uk-[...]
sza-nu-um an-nu-um# [...]
szu-bu-lum#
u3 _ku3-sig17_ u2-ul tu-[...]
ap#-pu-tum

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — UET 5, 0059. 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 (P414963) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P414963..

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