RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 112

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P451924

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P451924.

Transliteration

[...] x x [...]
[...] sza2#-a-tu-nu u2#-[...]
[...] a-lak ger-ri#-[...]
[...] i#-zir#-tu#? _iri#?_ x [...]
[...] isz#-ta#-x-ti# _iri#_ [...]
[...]-bit-ma e#-hu#-uz#? [...]
[...] szu#-a-tu ak#-x x x [...]
[...]-szah#-ri-ib#-ma# sza2#-x x [...]
[...]-e#-ri# x pa#-x [...]
[...] a#-szi-bat limmu2-dingir x [...]
[...]-tu#-tu# ah-sze-e#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 112. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P451924) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P451924..

Related tablets

Related sources

~3200 BCE

Proto-Cuneiform Account Tablet

One of the earliest specimens of human writing. Not literature, not law — accounting. The need to keep track of grain in a temple bureaucracy is what pushed marks-on-clay into a system that could one day carry epics.

~3500 BCE

Kish Tablet

Marks the boundary between proto-writing and writing. We can see signs being used systematically — but not yet phonetically. The leap to recording speech itself comes a few centuries later.

~2450 BCE

Stele of the Vultures

The earliest historical document in human history. Before this, we have lists, accounts, and dedications. Here, for the first time, a ruler tells us what happened — with names, places, and consequences.