CDLI Literary 000343, ex. 046 (P346470)

Literary tablet excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK

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Transliteration

tablet
obverse
  beginning broken
1'. [...] x x [...]
 en: ...
2'. [...]-ne szu#!? [...]-ab-gid2-de3-[...]
 en: They will offer the river water to you, you will not accept it
3'. [...]-ne x#? szu [...]-ab-gid2-de3-[...]
 en: They will offer the barley of the field to you, you will not accept it
4'. [...] {gesz}gag-ta# la2#-a# szum2#?-[...]-x-en du11-ga-na-ab-[...]
 en: You will say “give the beaten meat that hangs from the peg!”
5'. [...]
 en: ...
6'. [...] x x AN!?-bi szu [...] mu-na-ab#?-[...]
 en: ...
7'. [...] x ki#? x [...] x x NE [...]
 en: ...
8'. [...] IM sze3 szub-ba [...]
 en: ...
  rest broken
reverse
  broken