RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 249 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392283

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392283.

Transliteration

[...] e2#-[...]
[...] qa-ab-ri#-[x x]
[...] _iri#-mesz_ szu2-nu-ti# [...]
[...]-qur# ina gesz-bar# [x]-mu#
_[...]-mesz#_-szu2-nu _gu4-mesz_-szu2-nu _u8#-udu#-hi#-a#_-[x x]
[...]-nu# _nig2-gur11_-szu2-nu s,u-um-bi#
[...] _ansze#-kunga-mesz_ til-li#
[...] asz2#-lu-la a-na _kur_ an-szar2
[...]-bit# an-szar2# u 1(u)-5(disz)#
[...]-al#-da-si _man elam#-[x_ x]
[...] har#-ra-[x]
[...] x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 249 ?. 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 (P392283) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392283..

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