AMT pl. 082 04

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P398591

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P398591.

Transliteration

_[DISZ] na#? gidim#? ugu#-szu2#? _al#-[szub?_ ...]
_[DISZ] kimin#_ mu-s,a _sig2 ugu-dul-bi_ [...]
_[DISZ] kimin#_ mu-s,a ni-kip-tu2 KU-KU [...]
[ur]-ra# u _ge6_ ina _kusz_ ina _ga_ [...]
_[DISZ] kimin pesz10-id2# kur#-kur#_ [...]
illu# li-[dur_ ...]
[x] _a#-gar-gar masz-da3 uzu#_ [...]
[x] tar-musz _[igi_-lim? ...]
[u2]-la#-pat ar2-ma-ni# [...]
1(u)# 4(disz)# _u2-hi-a_ [...]
[x x] x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — AMT pl. 082 04. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P398591) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P398591..

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