RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 092

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P426282

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P426282.

Transliteration

[...]-ze?-szu2?-nu? x x x?
[...]-kub# _ansze-kur-ra_
[...] a#-sza2-a-ti
[...] ni#-bit-sun2#
[...]-ti#?-ia#
[...]-a#
[...] x
_har#-[...]_
_gir2_ [...]
ni-bit _mu#_-ia# [...]
_gigir-mesz_ [...]
a-na ru-kub# [...]
x x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 092. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P426282) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P426282..

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