RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 066

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P394636

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394636.

Transliteration

[...]-s,al#?-[...]
[...] _kur2#_-szu2 _adda_-szu2 [...]
[...]-ni# _giri3#-[...]_
[...] am-hu-ru isz-li#-[...]
[...]-szu2# _adda_-szu2 in-na-di#-[...]
[...]-ni# _giri3-pad-ra2#-[...]_
[...] ina ni-bit _mu_-ia sza2-pal-szu2 ik-bu#-[...]
[...]-pu-nu gi-mir _kur#-[...]_
_[...]-za#_-szu2 ep-szet _munus#-hul_ sza2 ina ni-isz# [...]
[...] ina# _igi ad_ ba-ni-szu2 u2-szap#-[...]
[...]-szu2# isz-pur#-[...]
[...] _giri3-min#_ [...]
[...] x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 066. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P394636) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P394636..

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