RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 121 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392202

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392202.

Transliteration

[...]-um#-[...]
[...]-ga#-tu pa-nu-usz-sza2# tasz#-[x]
[...] _inanna#-mesz_ i-sin-ni an-szar2-mah#
[...]-nar# _an_-e u _ki_-tim#
[... ]nanna# nam-ri
[...]-ia# sza# la# in-nen-nu-u
[...] mun-dah-s,e
[...] u# 1(u)-5(disz)
[...]-ha#-ri#
x [...]
u2#-[...]
qe2-reb# [...]
a#-na [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 121 ?. 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 (P392202) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392202..

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