TBP 34

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P452557

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Empire, library, terror, scholarship.

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P452585 · ~660 BCE

SAA 21 024. Duplicate of No. 23 (ABL 1108)

“Beginning destroyed (2') [“why] has] the king re[moved ...]?” (3') I w[ro]te to you [a]s from [the beginning]:…”

P452556 · ~760 BCE

BOC pl. 23 1882-03-23, 0064

Transliteration

[...] x _tuku sig5_ ina _tukul# [ug7_ ...]
[...] x an _a2-tuku#?_ x [...]
[...] x ul x x [...]
[...] ina [...]
[...] _x-mesz usz2#_ [ar2]-ni _ug7_ : x [...]
[... _x]-mesz usz2_ [ar2]-ni _ug7_ : ik-x [...]
[...] _ka#?-mesz_-szu2 _lugud2-da-mesz_ ina _la#?_ [...]
[...] x _dingir_ u [...]
[...] x i-[x ...]
[...] alam-dim2-mu-u2
[...] _man kur an-szar2_

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — TBP 34. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P452557) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P452557..

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