RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 009 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P394030

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394030.

Transliteration

[...] kar2#-dun#?-[x x]
[x x]-na#-al-la-ku u2-kab-ba-su# [...]
[x x] i#-de s,e-er un-da#-[x]
[x x] te#-um-man _lugal# elam-ma#_ [x]
[x x] za#-za-az _en#-iri#_ pil-[x x]
[x] pa#-ru-u2 _en#-iri#_ hi-il#-[x]
[x x]-ta#-me-tu [x] [x]
[...] a-lik pa-ni _erin2-hi#-[...]_
[...]-hu#-s,i it-ti# [...]
[...] x x x x? [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 009 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P394030) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394030..

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