RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 052

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P394111

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394111.

Transliteration

[...] ma#-li#-ti#
[...] a#-na# _kur#_ an-szar2
[...] ga-tu-du-ma
[...] na-di-i'#
[...]-ni# bad3-am-na#-[x x]
[...]-nu# ta-ra#-[...]
[...] e2-[...]
[...] e2#-[...]
sza [...]
a-di [...]
s,a-ri#-[...]
ni-siq-ti# [...]
sza _lugal#-[...]_
a#-na# kit#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 052. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P394111) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394111..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.