RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 096 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392167

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392167.

Transliteration

[...] x [...]
[...] sza2-qu#-[...]
[...]-ru-ma ip-la#-[...]
[...]-gal#-lu _lugal_ tab?_-iri#_-[x x]
[...]-lak-ka-a-[x]
[...] ik#?-nu?-szu2 ana _szudun_-ia#
[...]-it lib3-bi-szu2-nu
[...]-a'-di
[...] e#-pesz _agrig_-u-ti
[...]-na#-asz2-szi-qu _giri3-min_-ia
_[...]-mesz# gal-mesz_
x [...]
ina _zi_-x [...]
u2-s,a-ah#-[...]
it#-ti hu#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 096 ?. 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 (P392167) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392167..

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