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ETCSLtransliteration : c.3.1.03

Letter from Aradju to Culgi about irrigation work

1.	lugal-ju₁₀-ra u₃-na-a-dug₄
2.	^marad-ju₁₀ arad-zu na-ab-be₂-a
3.	lugal-ju₁₀ nij₂ na-me-ce₃ a₂-ce mu-e-da-a-aj₂
4.	a-ab-ba kur dilmun^ki-na-ta
5.	{a mun₄ gaba kur mar-tu^ki-ta} {(some mss. have instead:) a mun₄ gaba kur mar-tu^ki-ce₃}
6.	{/da^?\} {(1 ms. has instead:) /gaba^?\} si-mu-ur-ru-um {[ma]-da X^ki-ce₃} {(1 ms. has instead:) ma-da su-bir₄^ki-ta}
7.	iri^ki dili-dili-bi {ma-da-ma-da-bi} {(1 ms. has instead:) ugnim-be₂-ne}
8.	id₂ a-cag₄ a-gar₃-bi u₃ eg₂ pa₅-bi
9.	igi X IN X (X) DU en cag₄^? X X
10.	iri^ki-iri^ki jic tuku lugal-ju₁₀
11.	ki X X X BI X X (X) ur₂ X X X (X)
12.	bad₃^?-bi en-nu-uj₃ kalag^?-ga bi₂-gub
13.	ugnim-bi gu₂ jic bi₂-jar-jar
14.	X sig^? X X X X NE X X
15.	a-gar₃ a jar-ra-bi a-ta im-ta-e₃
16.	X eg₂ zal-la-bi X bi₂-ak
17.	X X a-cag₄-bi jic-gi X-ra
18.	[...] X-ke₄^? saj sag₃-ge X-bi
	4 lines fragmentary

Print sources

Huber 1998, p. 33 (l. 3), 36, 41 (l. 3), 46 (l. 3), 75 (ll. 4-6), 76, 80, 85: commentary, composite text

Michalowski 1976, p. 167-171: commentary, composite text, score transliteration, translation

Wilcke 1970a, p. 67-69: commentary

Cuneiform sources

Ni 9706 (ISET 2 111-112 = Orientalia 22 pls. 38-39 = UMB 17/2 fg. 4) rev. iii' 13'-34'; lines in composite: 1-22

A w/n

CBS 7787 (Gerardi, A Bibliography of the Tablet Collections of the University Museum = OPBF 8, Philadelphia (1984) 94)

CBS 8385+N 3290 (Gerardi, A Bibliography of the Tablet Collections of the University Museum = OPBF 8, Philadelphia (1984) 105)

N 2884 (Civil, Catalogue (3.13))

Revision history

26.iii.2001-28.iii.2001: EFH, editor: standardisation
18.v.2001: JAB, editor: proofreading
03.viii.2001: GZ, editor: SGML tagging
24.viii.2001: ER, editor: proofreading SGML
24.viii.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