RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 129

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P423039

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P423039.

Transliteration

[...] u2#-szak#-[...]
[...]-bi#-szu2 u3 _dumu#-[...]_
[...] _agrig_-u2-ti u2-bi#-[...]
[...] sza ma-ti-ma ti-amtu# [...]
[...] u2-sze-bi#-la a-na e-pesz# [...]
_[x]-munus#_-su u3 _dumu-munus-[...]_
[x]-ti# ter-ha-ti# ma#-a'#-as-si# [...]
[x]-e#-mu ar-szi-szu2-ma# _dumu#_ s,i-it lib3#-[...]
[x] ia-ki-in-lu-u _lugal_ ar#-u2#-[...]
[x] mu#-gal-lu _lugal_ [x x]
[x x]-an#-di#-szar-me [...]
[...] _ad#-mesz#_-ia# la# [...]
[...] x x? [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 129. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P423039) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P423039..

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