RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 006, ex. 008 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P425104

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P425104.

Transliteration

[...]-a#?-tu#?-[...]
[x _x]-mesz#_-szu2-nu ina tam#-tim# [...]
[x x] _erin2#-hi#-a_-ia ur-hu# pa-da-nu u2#-[...]
[...]-ra#-ru-ti ha-mat sza2 _lugal-mesz_ [...]
[...] mu-s,ur _ARAD-mesz_ da#-[...]
[...]-isz# ar-[...]
[x x] a-di kar#-[...]
[...] _lugal#_ mu-s,ur u [...]
[...]-lak# ger-ri-ia isz#-[x x]
[...] _[x]-mesz#_ [x x]
[...] _erin2#-mesz me3#_-[x]
[...] u3# ag#
[...]-di#?-[x]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 006, ex. 008 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P425104) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P425104..

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