Talk:The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia

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Information about this edition
Edition: "The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia", 1903
Source: Records of the Past 2(3): 67–90, + 7 plates; from Internet Archive.
Contributor(s): EncycloPetey
Level of progress: Validated
Notes: First English translation
Proofreaders: EncycloPetey, Kathleen.wright5

b4 Marduk - seemingly a mistake. But I don't know how to correct.[edit]

graciously before Marduk,
daily before Marduk
These are two options of translation for a sinlge phrase.
libit Esagila | i-gi-ir-ri-e | ûmi-ša-am |
i-na ma-ḫar (ilu)Marduk be-li-ia | iluZar-pa-ni-tum | be-el-ti-ia
One of them should be put in parenthesis. Pashute (talk) 17:35, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Are you saying that there is a transcription error from the original publication to our copy, or that the original author of this translation made a mistake? If there is a transcription error from the 1903 publication, please specify the page and how the Wikisource copy differs from the publication. If there is a translation error, Wikisource does not note those. Wikisource is a library that provides access to the publications as they were published. Altering them would be like writing in the books in a library, and Wikisource doesn't do that. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:47, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]