RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 247 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392244

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392244.

Transliteration

[...] x x x [...]
[...] _dumu#_ [...]
[...] _lugal#_-ut _kur_ an-szar2 [...]
[...] _dingir#-mesz_ u2-sza2-az#-[...]
[...] rik-[...]
[...] e-ru-ub ina _e2#_ [...]
[...]-kas _lugal#-[...]_
[...] _ad# ad_ a-[...]
[...] e#-pu-szu2 [...]
[...] _ad#_ ba#-[...]
[...] be#-lut [...]
[...]-tum#? u2#?-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 247 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P392244) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392244..

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