RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 015, ex. 001

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P452594

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P452594.

Transliteration

_[...]-na-mesz_-ia sza sza2-qi2-isz
[...] _gu-za ad_ ba-ni-ia
[...]-kur#-kur-ra _e2_ an-szar2 _en_-ia u2-szak-lil
[...] hu-usz-szu-u2 u2-szal-bisz
[x x]-mir# ki-ma u4-mi
[...]-u2# a-na lib3-bi u2-sze-rib
[...]-gu#-la at-man _dingir_-ti-szu2 u2-sze-szib
[...]-ri#-ih-ti ma-har-szu2 aq-qi2#-ma#
[...]-ra# kad3#-ra-a#-[x]
[...] x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 015, ex. 001. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P452594) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P452594..

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