RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 148

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P423224

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P423224.

Transliteration

[...] _ku3#-babbar#-mesz#_ [...]
[...]-asz3 ka-la#-[...]
[...]-ti# a-di 7(disz)-szu2 isz-lu#-[...]
[...]-ru husz-szu2-u esz-ma-ru-u eb#-[...]
[...]-tu# si-mat _lugal_-u2#-[...]
[...] u3 gesz-nu11-mu-[...]
[...]-ru# a-na e-lam#-[...]
[...]-u2#-ti til-li qa#-[...]
[...] _me3#_ si-mat [...]
_[...]-gal#-mesz_-szu2 ka#-[...]
[...] x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 148. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P423224) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P423224..

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