RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 090 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392155

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392155.

Transliteration

[...] _ad#_ ba#-nu#-u#-[x]
[...]-be#-lu# _kur_-su
[...] _gal#-mesz en-mesz_-ia
[...] ra#-ma-ni-szu2
[...] mu#-s,ur
[...]-a#-ki
u2#-[x x] a#-ri-im#-szu2# [...]
_lugal#_ s,ur-ri u2-rak#-[...]
ina tam-tim u na-ba-li ger-re#-[...]
ap-ti ma-da-at-ta-szu2 [...]
szal-mesz a-tu-ra a-na nina [...]
ma-al-ki _muru2_ tam-tim u3# [...]
_kur#-mesz#_ x x x x x x? [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 090 ?. 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 (P392155) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392155..

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