RINAP 5/2, Ashurbanipal 156 ex. 003

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P425177

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P425177.

Transliteration

[...] _husz#-a#_ sza# ni#-siq#-ti# _na4#-mesz#_ [...]
_[...]-da# ud-mesz_-szu2 sza2-lam li#-[...]
[...]-kap# _kur2-mesz_-szu2 [...]
[...]-nu# u2-szak-bi-su dam-qa#-[...]
[...] _egir#_-su _ugu_ s,al-mat _sag#-[...]_
[...] _dingir-mesz gal-mesz_ sza# [...]
[...]-szak#-szi-du ni-[...]
[...]-zi-zu#-[...]
[...] sza _ugu#_ [...]
[...] x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/2, Ashurbanipal 156 ex. 003. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P425177) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P425177..

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