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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 dilmunki-na-ta
5. {a mun4 gaba kur mar-tuki-ta} {(some mss. have instead:) a mun4 gaba kur mar-tuki-ce3}
6. {/da?\} {(1 ms. has instead:) /gaba?\} si-mu-ur-ru-um {[ma]-da Xki-ce3} {(1 ms. has instead:) ma-da su-bir4ki-ta}
7. iriki 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. iriki-iriki 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

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