OT 20 Rm 0425+

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P426375

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Empire, library, terror, scholarship.

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P426369 · ~680 BCE

SAA 20 026. Ritual of Tukulti-Ninurta for Sîn (BBR pl. 63 + 68)

“(1) [Tukulti-Ninurta (I)], king of Assyria, [performed and instituted] the (following) ri[tes for Sîn, his god…”

P426374 · ~760 BCE

Rm 0379 + Rm 2, 218 + Rm 2, 524

P426376 · ~760 BCE

Rm 0455 + 1879-07-08, 0122

P426373 · ~760 BCE

CDLI Literary 002718.n, ex. n

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — OT 20 Rm 0425+. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P426375) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P426375..

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