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Letter from Nanna-ki-aj to Lipit-Ectar about Gungunum's troops

1. lugal-ja2 u3-na-dug4
2. m dnanna-ki-aj2 ra-bi-si2-ka3-tum-ma
3. arad-zu na-ab-be2-a
4. e2-dannada-na/ki !\ lugal-ju10 ba-an-da-bal
5. cag4 e2-dannada-na-ce3 6 me-at ugnim gu-un-gu-nu-um
6. mat-ta-ma-an-nu-um ba-ni-in-kur9
7. ugnim-bi iri-saj-an-na libir-ra-ce3 ku4-ku4-de3 la-ba-cum2
8. /iri\ki-gibil-am3 al-dur2-ru-ne-ec
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-umki ak-de3
11. [...] X X-al-e-de3 ba-jen
12. /tukum\-[bi] lugal-ju10 NIM jic/pan?\ jicgag-pan
13. jicma2 tur-tur cu-KU6 X X X
14. kuc ?a-ja2-[la2] kece2-da-bi jictukul jic[X jic]/cu?\-kar2
15. a2 me3 [...] nu-um-ta-[...] DU
16. ugnim [...] gu2 id2-amar-[dsuen-ka]-ta
17. ceg12 ba-du3-e X [...] X X-e u3 id2 [X] al-ba-al-e
18. lugal-ju10 nam-ba-e-ce-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

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