BAM 6, 537

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238994

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P238994.

Transliteration

_en2#_ ul# [...]
_an#?-ta na-an-gi#_ x x [...]
[x] x _en-bi si-sa2_ : x [...]
[x x] BI EN LA x x [...]
[x x] x x x [...]
[x x bu-']-sza2#-nu# [...]
_[gin7] ur#-bar-ra_ is,-s,a#-bat# x [...]
[ina] im#-bu-ub ha-sze-e it#-[ta-di ...]
s,i#-i bu-'-sza2-nu ul [...]
u _ku3-su13_ la i-ni-qu# [...]
at-ta e ta-as-sah-ra# [...]
_en2_ ul iu-u2-tu-un _en2_ [...]
_en2#_ da#-mu# u# gu#-la# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — BAM 6, 537. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P238994) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P238994..

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