RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 129 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392214

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392214.

Transliteration

[...] x [...]
[...] du#-na#-[x]
[...] _ugu# iri#_ gam#-bu#-li#
[...]-u szil-la-tu2 _gal#_-ti
[...]-szu2-un asz2-lu#-up#
[...] _kusz#_-szu2-un#
[...] ni-na#-a
[...]-s,i#? id-du?-szu2-ma it,-x-bu-hu-usz as-lisz
[...]-szu2 sza2 du-na-nu
[...]-ir# _uzu-mesz_-szu2-nu u2-nak#-kis#
[...] ta#-mar-ti ma-ti-tan
[...] en-kar-ir#
[...] _gu2-en-na#_
[...] ur#-ta-ki id#-[x x]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 129 ?. 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 (P392214) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392214..

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