RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 064

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P394097

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394097.

Transliteration

[...] x [...]
_[...]-mesz 1(u)-5(disz)#-[...]_
_[...]-ga#_-szu2#-[x x]-na#-te#?-szu2-nu# [...]
[...] asz2#-lu-la# a-na _kur_ an-[...]
[...] pi-ti-iq# _ku3#-babbar# ku3#-sig17# uruda#_ [...]
[...]-sza2-an ma-dak#-ti hu-ra#-[x]
[...] um#-man-i-gasz _dumu#_ um-ba-da-ra-a#
[...]-tar#-na-hu-un#-di _alam#_ hal-lu#-si#
[...]-tu _egir_-u sza2# ina qi2#-bit an-szar2 1(u)-5(disz) e-pu-szu2 _ARAD#_-u-ti
[...] _kur#_ an-szar2 ad-ka-a _alad#-mesz# lamma#-mesz_
[...] szu#-ut# e2#-kur# ma#-la# ba#?-szu#-u
isz#-ta#?-[...]
it#-ti-szu2 u2#-[...]
sza# an-szar2 u 1(u)-5(disz)# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 064. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P394097) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394097..

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