RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 135 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392223

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392223.

Transliteration

[...]-u#-ta#-a'# [...]
_[x]-gi# igi#-min#-mesz babbar-dili_ gu#-[...]
_ansze#-nita2-mesz_ bit-ru-ti man-[...]
u2-kin [...]
am-mu-la-di-in _lugal_ [...]
ih-ta-nab-ba-tu hu#-[...]
ina zi-kir _mu_-ia sza2 an-szar2 [...]
1(u)-5(disz) sza2 nina 1(u)-5(disz) sza2 limmu2#-[dingir ...]
ka-ma-as-hal-ta-a _lugal#_ [...]
_ARAD#_ da-gil2 pa#-[x x]
[x] _me3#_ isz-ku-nu _bad5#-[x_ x]
[x x]-mu#-la#-di#? [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 135 ?. 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 (P392223) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392223..

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