RINAP 3/1 Sennacherib 010, ex. 002

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P450334

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450334.

Transliteration

[...] x x [...]
[...] x iszkur x [...]
[...] x-usz _e2_-su x [...]
[...]-szu2# a-di gaba-dib-bi-szu2# [...]
[...] _dub#-sar-mesz_ u2-szar#-[...]
[...]-ta# sza2# 3(u)-pap-mesz-su _man kur_ asz-szur# [...]
[...] u _dingir-mesz gal-mesz_ ba-an _e2_ da#-[...]
[...] x x x s,al-mat _sag-du_ [...]
[...] x x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 3/1 Sennacherib 010, ex. 002. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P450334) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450334..

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