RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 122 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392203

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392203.

Transliteration

[...]-te#-szi#-[...]
[...]-um#-man _man_ elam#-ma#
[...]-i# na-di ma-dak-tu2
[...] qe2#-reb |BAD3.AN| isz-me-ma
[...] hat-tu
[...]-na# _egir#_-szu2# i-tur#
[...]-sza2#-an
_ad#-[...]_
ul#-[...]
asz2-ku#-[...]
ibila#-[...]
is,#-bat [...]
du-na#-[...]
_dumu#-mesz#_ [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 122 ?. 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 (P392203) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392203..

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