RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 006, ex. 020 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392316

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392316.

Transliteration

[...]-lik# la# ku#-[...]
[x x]-qu#-u ul-tu2 qe2#-reb# mu#-[...]
[x]-tu-ni a-sza2-ba-ni [...]
[x]-li# tar#-qu-u _man_ ku#-si [x]-na# sza2-kan2# [...]
u3# sa#-li#-me u2-ma-'e-e-ru# rak#-[...]
[x]-ma# su-lum-mu-u2 ina bi#-ri#-[...]
[x]-in#-dag#-ga-ra a-ha#-mesz# [x] a#-[...]
ni#-zu#-uz#-ma a-a ib-[...]-ri#-[...]
a#-na# _erin2#-hi#-a kur_ an-szar2# [...]
[x x] x x [...]
x x x? [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 006, ex. 020 ?. 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 (P392316) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392316..

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