RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 062

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P394092

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394092.

Transliteration

[...] x [...]
[...] sza# asz2-pu-ru _<a2>-tah_-su# [...]
[...]-a# _hul_-tu a-na ka-[...]
[...]-bi# it-ti lib3#-[...]
_[...]-mesz# elam#-[...]_
[...]-e# i-tu-ru ina pa#-[...]
[...]-ma# ir-ru-bu#-[...]
[...]-ba#-tu hu-bu-ut [...]
[...] sza# _a2-min_-a-a il#-[...]
[...]-zu#-in#-ni _edin_ ga#-[...]
[...]-s,u# ba#-ra-nu-u ib-ru-ma [...]
[...]-ti#-szu2 id-ku#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 062. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P394092) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394092..

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