RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 030 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P452394

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P452394.

Transliteration

[...] isz-ku-na# _bad5#-bad5#_-szu2#
[...]-it#-ti _ug3-mesz_-szu2
[...]-tu#-u-ni u2-s,a-bit ina _szu-min_
[...]-re#-tu2 _an-bar_ id-di-ma
[...]-ri#-ia u2-sze-bi-la
[...] _man#_ na-ba-a-a-ti
[...] ru-u2-qu
_[...]-szar2#_ u marduk sza u2-tak-ki-lu-in-ni
_[...]-mesz# ad-mesz_-ia _a kin_-szu2 la isz#-pu#-[x]
[...]-lum# _lugal#_-ti#-[x x]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 030 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P452394) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P452394..

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