RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 017 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P400438

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P400438.

Transliteration

[...]-qi2#-du# _ad_ ba-nu#-[x x]
[...]-ti u e-kem mu-s,ur
[x x]-ka#? _edin_-usz-szu2-un
[...]-szib# qe2#-reb me-em-pi
[...] ik-szu-du#
[...]-szu2# u2-ter-ru#
[...] nina# il#-lik#-[x x?]
[...]-a# ia-a-ti#
[...]-ti# an#-na#-a#-ti#
[...] is,#-s,a-ru-uh# ka#-bat-ti
[...]-mu#-qi2-ia# s,i#-ra#-a#-te#
[...] qa#-tu#-u-a

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 017 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P400438) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P400438..

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