RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 147

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P422515

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P422515.

Transliteration

[...] ep#-szet# _munus-hul#_ [...]
[...] _igi# ad#_ ba#-ni-[...]
[...]-ma# is,-ba#-ta# _giri3#-[...]_
[...] i#-du#-szu2 at#-[...]
_[...]-hul#_ isz-sza2#-kin# ina pa#-[...]
[...]-ka# kur#-ban#-[...]
[...]-sza2#-an-[...]
[...] _erin2#-hi#-a#?-[...]_
[...] x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 011, ex. 147. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P422515) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P422515..

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