RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 234 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P425109

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P425109.

Transliteration

[...]-nu# u3 li#-[x x]
[...]-ti#-ia# _ugu#_ [x] du#-na-nu gam-bu-la#-[x x]
[...]-ma# it-tak-lu# asz2-ku-na pa-ni#-[x]
[...] _iri_ tukul-ti gam-bu#-li ak#-[x x]
[...]-tu2#? e-ru-ub _ug3-mesz_-szu2 as-lisz# [...]
[...]-gu#-nu mu-nar-ri-t,u e#-pesz# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 234 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P425109) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P425109..

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