RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 076

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P401197

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P401197.

Transliteration

[...] x x x [...]
[...] sza# ni-i-ba# [...]
[...] ap#-pul aq-qur ina [...]
_[...]-mesz# gu4-mesz_ u s,e-e-ni#
[...] u2#-sze-s,a-am-ma szal-la-tisz am-nu
[...]-ri#-ia isz-me-ma#
[...] _iri lugal#_-ti-[x]
[...] x x x x x x

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 076. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P401197) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P401197..

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