RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 072

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P384981

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P384981.

Transliteration

[...] nina# [...]
[...] limmu2-dingir [...]
_[...]-mesz# en-mesz_-ia# e#-[...]
[x x] ba#-lat, _zi_-ti3-szu2 [...]
[x]-ta#?-a u2-s,al-la-a _en#_-[x x]
[x x]-ri#-si-in#-ni _dumu#_ ri-du#-[x x]
[x x] nina# isz#-pur#-am#-ma u2-na-szi-qa#? [...]
[x]-e#-mu ar#-szi-szu2-ma _a kin#_-[x]
[x] szul#-me# u2#-ma#-'e-er _edin_-usz#-[x]
[x x] s,i#-it# lib3#-[x x]
[...]-la# a#-na# e#-pesz# _agrig#_-[x x]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 072. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P384981) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P384981..

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