RINAP 5/2, Ashurbanipal 154 ex. 002

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P398409

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P398409.

Transliteration

[...] x [...]
[...] _he2#-nun_ u _he2-gal2#_-lim#? [...]
[...] szu#-nu lu-u tuk-la-ti-ma# [...]
[...] _lugal#-mesz dumu-mesz_-ia sza2 sin# [...]
[...]-nu#-ma szi-pir _szu-min_-ia ma-la ba#-[...]
[...]-hu#-us-su lu-ud-disz ni-kit#?-[...]
[...] szat,#-ru _mu ad_-ia _ad#_ [...]
[...] ni#-ip-hi u3# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/2, Ashurbanipal 154 ex. 002. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P398409) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P398409..

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The earliest historical document in human history.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.