RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 212 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P399259

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P399259.

Transliteration

[x x?] x [...]
[x]-nen#-na [...]
_[x]-mesz#_ [x x]
[x x] _dingir_-ti-sza2 _gal_-ti# [...]
[x]-ra#-nu [...]
[x] ul#-lu-us, [x x]
ta#-as,-ba-ta a-[...]
[x] qe2#-reb unu u2#-[...]
[x] e2-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 212 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P399259) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P399259..

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