Cuneiform Revealed - An excellent online introduction to Akkadian language and cuneiform scripts. It includes links and instructions for installing both Neo-Akkadian and Old Babylonian sign fonts, which are usable through unicode. Much easier than the old way, with undocumented LaTeX.
If you had the fonts installed, you'd be able to read the following:
.....[redacted*]....
And for those without:
That would be transliterated into "tippi bit perin" or "the tablet of the home of the person called Erin", roughly "Aaron's Homepage"
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* apparently MT is not as unicode safe as they say it is, including the actual UTF-8 encodings broke something inside the engine, so they have been removed
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