RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 238 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P422345

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P422345.

Transliteration

_[...]-dul3#_-la#-sza2# sza# sza2#-la-[...]
[...]-tu ina _gu-za ad du3_-ia u2#-[...]
[...] _ug3-mesz dagal-mesz_ ka-a-a-na# pu#-[...]
[...] ka#-szad _kur2-mesz_-ia u2-pa#-[...]
[...]-a#-a#-al mu-szi du-um#-[...]
[...]-e#-ri ba-nu-u ger-ru#-[...]
[...]-li#-mu _en_-szu2 [...]
[...] _gal#-mesz_ szi-mat-su i#-[...]
[...]-su# ad-ke asz2-szu2# [...]
[...]-ti#-szu2 aq-[...]
[...]-tu# ap#-[...]
[...] x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 238 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P422345) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P422345..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.