RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 111 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392187

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392187.

Transliteration

[...] _zi#-[...]_
[...]-szu2#-ma#? as,-bat# [...]
[x x] la-pa-an# su-un-qi2 in#-[...]
[x x]-bu# qe2-reb [...]
[x x] zu#-un-nu ina _kur_-szu2 iz-nu-nu ib-ba#-[...]
[x x] sza2-a-tu-nu sza2 ina _kur_-ia ib-lu-t,u u2#-[...]
[x] elam#-ma-a-a sza ti-bu-us-su it-[...]
[x] da#-ab-ba-ku la ha-as-sa-ku# [...]
[x] _en#-ba_-sza2 gam-bu#-[...]
[x x] _ag#-mu-uru4_-esz [...]
_[x]-mesz#_ da#-gil2# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 111 ?. 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 (P392187) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392187..

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