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Proverbs: collection 24

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24.1
1. [...] A /MU\ [...]
24.2
(cf. 6.1.09.a12-13, 6.1.19.b1-2, 6.1.21.b4-5, 6.2.5: YBC 4677 ll. 1-4)
2. /cah2\-[niga] /ab\-cum-de3 /nij2\ [i3-gu7-a-ju10 ga-ab-su-e-ce]
3. /cah2-ze2\-eh tur-e /cu\ [al-gu4-ud-gu4-ud-de3] sag9-ga-ac-am3 je26-/e\ [nu-gu7-e-ce]
24.3
(cf. 6.1.02.135, 6.1.19.b4)
4. e2 gul-gul-e [kug i3-gul-e]
5. e2 gul-e kug-/sig17\ [i3-gul-e]
24.4
(cf. 6.1.09.a14, 6.1.19.b5)
6. dam /u3\-mu-/un-si\ gam-[am3 geme2 ug5-ga-am3]
7. u3-mu-un-/si\ gam-[am3 arad ug5-ga-am3]
24.5
(cf. 6.1.03.71, 6.1.11.19, 6.1.19.b6)
8. ga-gid2 /mu\-un-/da\-[ku5-ru cu-bi bar-edin-na mu-da-an-DU]
24.6
9. im-ba am3-ja2-/ja2\ [...]
10. ba-ab-ak i3-[...]
24.7
(cf. 6.1.03.88, 6.1.18.14)
11. saj bul-e /id2\-[da bal-e]
24.8
(cf. 6.1.19.c7, 6.1.21.c1, 6.1.23.18)
12. kucummud /zi\ [lu2-kam] kuce-sir2 [igi lu2-kam]
13. dam dim4-ma /lu2\-[kam] /dumu-nitah\ jissu /lu2\-[kam]
14. dumu-munus saj cu jar lu2-kam e2-gi4-a gal5-la2 /lu2\-[kam]
24.9
(cf. 6.1.03.26, 6.1.19.c2)
15. dutu bar-ra cu he2-/en-ne\-[cu2] ni2-zu cu nu-zu-a /kur9\-ni-[ib]
24.10
(cf. 6.1.21.c4)
16. kac ga-an-ze2-eb-ba usar(source: UKUR3) [nu]-/mu\-un-kal-[e]
24.11
(cf. 6.1.21.c5; edited separately as 6.3.b The fowler and his wife)
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Print/Electronic sources

Alster 1980, pp. 33-50: score transliteration, translation, handcopy, commentary
Alster 1997a, pp. 273-274, 451: translation, score transliteration
Krecher 1995: composite text, translation

Cuneiform sources

KNMA 10068

Revision history

27.i.2002: JT, editor: standardisation
26.iii.2002: JAB, editor: proofreading
16.xii.2002: GC, editor: SGML tagging