RINAP 5/2, Ashurbanipal 122 ex. 001

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P400432

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P400432.

Transliteration

[... ]li#?-mir#?_-[ensi2_-asz-szur ...]
[... tar]-qu#-u2 _man_ ku-u#-[si ...]
[...] is#-hu-up-szu-[ma ...]
[... ur-da-ma]-ne2#-e _dumu nin9_-szu2 [...]
[... a]-na# dan-nu-ti# [...]
[...] _muru2#_ u3 _me3#_ [...]
[... u2]-szat#-ba-a [...]
[...] an#-szar2 u3 _dingir#-[mesz_ ...]
[...] _edin#_ rap#-szi# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/2, Ashurbanipal 122 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 (P400432) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P400432..

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