AMT pl. 080 03

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P400275

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P400275.

Transliteration

[...] x _ti_
[... _gi] szul#-hi_
[...] _esz-mesz_
[...] ud
[...] szi#
[...] asz
[...] x
x [...]
_DISZ na_ [...]
_u3-bu-[bu-ul_ ...]
ina _kusz_ a-li-[x ...]
ur2-ne2-e _numun#_ [...]
_ur-tal2-tal2#_ [...]
x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — AMT pl. 080 03. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P400275) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P400275..

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