RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 102

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P424604

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P424604.

Transliteration

[...]_-dingir#_
[...]-kun#-szu2
[...]-ta#-a-a
[...]-ma#
[...]-ma#
_usz2-mesz#_ [...]
sza qe2-reb _kur_-e e#-lu#-u2# [...]
e-hu-zu mar#-[x x]
e-du ul ip-par#-[x]
mul-tah-t,u ul us,-s,i# [...]
a-szar mar-qi2-ti-szu2-nu _szu#-[...]_
_ug3-mesz_ zik-ru [x x x?]
_ansze-mesz ansze-a-ab-ba-mesz gu4#-[...]_
ina# la mi3-ni asz2-lu-la# a-na# [...]
[x]-har# _kur#_-ia# sza# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 102. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P424604) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P424604..

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