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ETCSLtransliteration : c.3.3.06

Letter from Aba-tah-lugalja to his brothers

1.	cec-ju₁₀-ne u₃-na-dug₄
2.	^m^da-ba₄-tah-lugal-ja₂-ke₄ na-ab-be₂-a
3.	al-su₃-ud kaskal i-im-re₇-de₃-en
4.	u₃ lugal gen₆-na lugal-me /jiri₃^?\ ba-an-/us₂\
5.	kaskal-kaskal-e kaskal ba-an-tah
6.	ama-me en₃ li-bi₂-in-tar-re-de₃-en
7.	dag-gi₄-me ud /na\-an-cu₂-uc-a lul-ac
8.	1(DIC) sila₃ mun 1(DIC) sila₃ gazi
	{
	(1 ms. adds on the lower edge:)
8A.	[X] UC cu-ta e-[...]
	}
9.	1(DIC) cag₄-ga-du₃^tug₂
10.	lu₂ du hu-mu-/e^?\-[X]
11.	kaskal-me al-su₃-ud
12.	a-ma-ru-kam

Print sources

Ali 1964, p. 117-119: composite text, score transliteration, translation, handcopy, commentary (hand copies in pls.)

Robson 2001, p. 57-59: commentary (archaeological context)

Wilcke 1970a, p. 67-69: commentary

Electronic sources

Krecher 1996b: composite text, translation

Michalowski 2001a: composite text

Cuneiform sources

CBS 7848 (PBS 13 46, Ali, SL pl. 38) + CBS 7856 (Ali, SL pl. 38) + CBS 7849 (PBS 13 48) + Ni 9705 (ISET 2 123) + Ni 4574 (ISET 1 149); provenance: Nippur; lines in composite: CBS 7849 iv = 2-5

CBS 9892; provenance: Nippur

Ni 9707 (ISET 1 179); provenance: Nippur; lines in composite: 1-3, 10-11

Ni 9701 (ISET 2 114) + N 3264 + N 3266 + N 3294 + N 3301 + N 3303 + N 3308 + N 3310 + UM 29-16-139 (Ali, SL pls. 24-25); provenance: Nippur; lines in composite: Ni 9701 rev. ii 1'-7' = 3-11 (cf. Civil, Farmer's 177)

3N-T479 = UM 55-21-332 (Ali, SL pl. 30); provenance: Nippur; lines in composite: 1-11

3N-T790 = A 30297 (Ali, SL pl. 42); provenance: Nippur; lines in composite: 1-11

Revision history

10.x.2005-21.x.2005: GC, senior editor: standardisation
24.x.2005-28.x.2005: GC, senior editor: lemmatisation
31.x.2005-11.xi.2005: GC, senior editor: XML/TEI conversion
16.i.2006-27.i.2006: ER/GZ, project associate/project associate: proofreading
28.ii.2006: JE, technical developer: XML/TEI validation
01.iii.2006: JE, technical developer: web publication