Letter from Nanna-ki-aĝ to Lipit-Eštar about Gungunum's troops
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lugal-ĝa2 u3-na-dug4
Speak to my lord: this is what Nanna-ki-aĝ the general, your servant, says:
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{m}{d}nanna-ki-aĝ2 ra-bi-si2-ka3-tum-ma
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arad-zu na-ab-be2-a
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e2-dannada-na⌈!⌉ lugal-ĝu10 ba-an-da-bal
E-danna has turned against my lord. Atta-mannum has made six hundred troops of Gungunum enter into E-danna.
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šag4 e2-dannada-na-še3 6 me-at ugnim gu-un-gu-nu-um
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{m}at-ta-ma-an-nu-um ba-ni-in-kur9
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ugnim-bi iri-saĝ-an-na libir-ra-še3 ku4-ku4-de3 la-ba-šum2
I would not allow these troops to enter old Iri-saĝ-ana. They camped instead in Iri-gibil. These troops The troops of Gungunum have come from the banks of the Id-Amar-Suena watercourse, in order to build ……, to make Dunnum ready (?) and to …….
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⌈iri⌉{ki}-gibil-am3 al-dur2-ru-ne-eš
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ugnim-bi ⌈ugnim⌉ gu-un-gu-nu-um gu2 id2-amar-{d}suen-ka-ta
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[X] ⌈du3⌉-u3-de3 du-un-nu-um{ki} ak-de3
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[…] X X-al-e-de3 ba-ĝen
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⌈tukum⌉-[bi] lugal-ĝu10 NIM {ĝiš}⌈?⌉ {ĝiš}gag-pan
If my lord does not …… crews of highlanders, bows, arrows, small boats, fishermen ……, their tied-up leather sacks, weapons, …… and implements, the armaments of battle, then the troops will construct brick structures by the bank of the Id-Amar-Suena watercourse, …… and dig a …… canal.
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{ĝiš}ma2 tur-tur šu-KU6 X X X
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?a-ĝa2-[la2] keše2-da-bi {ĝiš}tukul {ĝiš}[X {ĝiš}]⌈?⌉-kar2
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a2 me3 […] nu-um-ta-[…] DU
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ugnim […] gu2 id2-amar-[{d}suen-ka]-ta
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šeg12 ba-du3-e X […] X X-e u3 id2 [X] al-ba-al-e
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lugal-ĝu10 nam-ba-e-še-ba-e-ne
They should not be neglectful, my lord! It is urgent!
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a-ma-ru-kam
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