RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 220 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P400450

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P400450.

Transliteration

[...] x x? [...]
[...]-u eb-bu ni-siq#-[...]
[...]-tu#? si-mat _lugal-[...]_
[...]-ru#-ti# u3# gesz-nu11-mu-gi#-na#
[...]-szu#-ru a-na e-lam-ti
[...] _lugal#_-ti til-li qa-ra-bi
[...] si#-mat qa-ti-szu2 u2-nu#-ut#
_[...]-mesz#_-szu2# ka#-la#-[x]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 220 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P400450) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P400450..

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