RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 185

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392296

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392296.

Transliteration

[...]-hu#-ti# [...]
[...]-t,u _lugal-mesz_ [...]
[x x] aq#-qur utu u2#-[...]
_[...]-mesz_-szu2-nu al-qa-a a-[...]
[x x]-me#-szu2-nu la s,a-la-lu# [...]
[...] naq me-e u2-za#-[...]
[...] 2(u) 5(disz)# _u4-mesz_ na-ge-e [...]
[...] sah#-le-e u2-sap#-[...]
_[...]-mesz# nin9#-[...]_
[...] x x x? [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 185. 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 (P392296) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392296..

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