RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 082 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392145

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392145.

Transliteration

[...]-nu
[...]-tim#
[...]
[...] x
tar-qu-u a-szar in-nab-tu#? [...]
is-hup-szu2-ma il-lik# [...]
_egir_-nu ur-da-ma#-[...]
u2-szib ina _gu#-[...]_
ni-i' [...]
u2-pah#-[...]
a-na mit-hu#-[...]
sza2# qe2#-reb# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 082 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P392145) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392145..

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