RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 216 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P394088

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394088.

Transliteration

[...] x [...]
[...]-hu-un-di _alam#_ [...]
[...]-tu2#? _egir_-u2#
[...] 1(u) 5(disz)# e-pu-szu2 _ARAD_-ti
[...]-na# _kur_ an-szar2
_[...]-mesz# lamma-mesz_
[...] ma#-la ba-szu2-u
_[...]-mesz#_ na-ad-ru-ti
_[...]-mesz#_-ni

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 216 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P394088) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394088..

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