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ETCSLtransliteration : c.3.2.03

Letter from Nanna-ki-aĝ to Lipit-Eštar about Gungunum's troops

1.	lugal-ĝa₂ u₃-na-dug₄
2.	^m^dnanna-ki-aĝ₂ ra-bi-si₂-ka₃-tum-ma
3.	arad-zu na-ab-be₂-a
4.	e₂-danna^da-na/^ki^!\ lugal-ĝu₁₀ ba-an-da-bal
5.	šag₄ e₂-danna^da-na-še₃ 6 me-at ugnim gu-un-gu-nu-um
6.	^mat-ta-ma-an-nu-um ba-ni-in-kur₉
7.	ugnim-bi iri-saĝ-an-na libir-ra-še₃ ku₄-ku₄-de₃ la-ba-šum₂
8.	/iri\^ki-gibil-am₃ al-dur₂-ru-ne-eš
9.	{ugnim-bi} {(1 ms. has instead:) /ugnim\ gu-un-gu-nu-um} gu₂ id₂-amar-^dsuen-ka-ta
10.	[X] /du₃\-u₃-de₃ du-un-nu-um^ki ak-de₃
11.	[…] X X-al-e-de₃ ba-ĝen
12.	/tukum\-[bi] lugal-ĝu₁₀ NIM ^ĝiš/pan^?\ ^ĝišgag-pan
13.	^ĝišma₂ tur-tur šu-KU₆ X X X
14.	^kuš^?a-ĝa₂-[la₂] keše₂-da-bi ^ĝištukul ^ĝiš[X ^ĝiš]/šu^?\-kar₂
15.	a₂ me₃ […] nu-um-ta-[…] DU
16.	ugnim […] gu₂ id₂-amar-[^dsuen-ka]-ta
17.	šeg₁₂ ba-du₃-e X […] X X-e u₃ id₂ [X] al-ba-al-e
18.	lugal-ĝu₁₀ nam-ba-e-še-ba-e-ne
19.	a-ma-ru-kam

Print sources

Ali 1964, p. 71-75, xxiv-xxv, xxxviii, liii: composite text, score transliteration, translation, handcopy, commentary (handcopies in pls.)

Frayne 1992, p. 35, 120, fns. 259-264: composite text, translation, commentary (ll. 1-11)

Michalowski 1980-83, p. 55 (section 4.3): commentary

Wilcke 1970a, p. 67-69: commentary

Electronic sources

Krecher 1996b: composite text, translation

Michalowski 2001a: composite text

Cuneiform sources

BM 54894 rev. 1'-8'; lines in composite: 1-10? (collated by EFH)

BM 79102 obv. 7'-9'; lines in composite: 1-3? (collated by EFH)

N 3210 + N 3264 + N 3266 + N 3294 + N 3303 + N 3308 + Ni 9701 (ISET 2 114) + UM 29-16-139 (Ali, SL pls. xxiv-xxv) ii 7'-23'; lines in composite: 1-19

U 7741 (UET 6 173) iii 7-17; lines in composite: 1-11

Ni 9708 (ISET 1 179 = UMBS 17/II 15) + Ni 1281 (ISET 2 116) obv. 1-14; lines in composite: 1-13

UM 29-13-20 + UM 29-13-24 (Ali, SL pl. liii) ii' 5'-8'; lines in composite: 1-4

Crozer 206

CBS 7848 (PBS 13 46, Ali, SL pl. xxxviii) + CBS 7856 (Ali, SL pl. xxxviii) + CBS 7849 (+) Ni 4574 (ISET 1 149) b 1'-9'; lines in composite: 12-19

CBS 2231 (PBS 5 65) ii 1'-9'; provenance: Nippur; lines in composite: 11-15

N 1513

Revision history

24.vii.2001-27.vii.2001: EFH, editor: standardisation
19.xi.2001: JAB, editor: proofreading
22.xi.2001: GC, editor: SGML tagging
23.xi.2001: ER, editor: proofreading SGML
23.xi.2001: ER, editor: web publication
01.vi.2003: GC/JE, editor/technical developer: XML/TEI conversion
30.iii.2005: GC/JE, senior editor/technical developer: lemmatised version published