RINAP 3/1 Sennacherib 003, ex. 004 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P450275

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450275.

Transliteration

[...] _lugal_ la sza2-na-an re-e2-[...]
[...]-lik# tap-pu-ut a-ki-i [...]
[...]-pu# la-'i-it, la ma-gi-ri# [...]
[...] _ugu#_ gi-mir a-szib pa-rak-[...]
[_erin2 hi]-a_ elam-ma i-na [...]
[...]-um#-ma-ni in-na-bit qe2-reb a-gam-me [...]
[...] ud-ri sza i-na qit#-ru#-ub# [...]
[...]-s,ir#-ti#-szu2 _ku3-sig17 ku3-babbar#_ u2-nu-ut _ku3#-[x_ ...]
[...]-a-ni ma-la ba-szu-u2 mut#-tab#-bi#-lu#-[...]
[...] a-gam-me u3 ap-pa-ra#-a#-te# u2-ma-[...]
[...] x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 3/1 Sennacherib 003, ex. 004 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P450275) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450275..

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