RINAP 4 Esarhaddon x1014, ex. 001

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P395578

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P395578.

Transliteration

[... ]elam-ma [...]
[...] x-ad _nun_ hi-[...]
[...]-man sza2-at-pi ka-[...]
[...] ri-sza2-ni x x _ad-mesz_ [...]
[...]-e ma-ku-tu [...]
[...] ra-a-na ni-i-ti [...]
[...] sap-lu sza2 ka-[...]
[...]-ka
[...]-nu-u2-si
[...]-pi
[...]
[...] x x

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 4 Esarhaddon x1014, ex. 001. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P395578) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P395578..

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