RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 040

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P394024

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394024.

Transliteration

[...]-us#-su#-[x]
_[...]-mesz#-su ad# ad du3#_-ia#
[...]-na#-ku# ina ki#-is-pi-szu2
[...] as#-pu-un
[...]-ti# u2#-sza2#-kil#
[...] zi#?-i#?-[...]
[...] x x [...]
[x]-nen#-na ra#-a-szi# [...]
u3# szu-u um-man-al-da#-[...]
ka-szad ra-a-szi ha-ma#-[...]
pu-luh-ti an-szar2 u 1(u)-5(disz) a-li#-[...]
ma-dak-tu _iri man_-ti#-[...]
in#-na-bit a-na# [...]
id#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 040. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P394024) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394024..

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