RINAP 3/1 Sennacherib 022, ex. 011 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P450371

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450371.

Transliteration

[...] x x x
[...]-un# ma-am-man
[...]-ni mah-ru-ti
[...] up#-pa szad-di-i
[...] u2#-sza2-asz2-kin-ma
[...]-ti# _erin2-mesz_
[...]-re#-bi-szu2-un
[...]-s,i#-isz
[...]-ti#
x [...]
[...]
sza2#? [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 3/1 Sennacherib 022, ex. 011 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P450371) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450371..

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