RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 128 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392213

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392213.

Transliteration

[...]-a# _dumu#_ [...]
[x]-bat# u2#-[x]-bi#-la# a-di [x x? x]
[x] du-na-nu# [x] sa#-am-gu#-[x]
_dumu#-mesz en#-ba_-sza2 [x] gam-bu-la#-[x x]
sza _ad-mesz_-szu-un# a-na _lugal#-mesz# ad#-[x_ x]
u2-dal-li-pu#-ma u3# szu#-[x]
u2#-nar3#-[x]-t,u# e-pesz _lugal#_-[x x]
[...] u3# limmu2#-[dingir ...]
[...]-ra#-a-ti u2-bil-[...]
_[...]-mesz#?_ 2(disz)-u [...]
[...]-u2#-s,al-li sza2 _ugu#_ [...]
[...]-ia# iq-bu-u# szil#-la#-[...]
[...]-reb# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 128 ?. 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 (P392213) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392213..

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