BAM 4, 325

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P281831

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P281831.

Transliteration

[... _en] du11-du11#?_ kisz-pi x [...]
[...] _nu-luh_ im-hur#?-[lim? ...]
[...] im-hur-asz2-ru# [...]
[...] _dili_ el-kul-la [...]
[... ]ir-kul-la [...]
[...] szur-sza _ku7#-ku7 had2-ra2#_
[...] _kusz asz2-gar3 nita nu du8#_
[ina _uzu_ ar-ra]-bi# ta-szap-pi ana _ugu#?_ [...]
[...] _ud#_ 3(disz)-szu2 _en2_ [x ...]
[...] x ina _gu2_-szu2 _[gar_ ...]
[...] x x szu [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — BAM 4, 325. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (P281831) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P281831..

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