BAM 6, 568

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P398532

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P398532.

Transliteration

_DISZ# na#_ ru-ta ina _a il2_-szi _uzu-mesz_-szu 2(disz) ut-tap-pa-hu# [...]
[x] _bu2#-bu2#-ul_ ina _u4-bu2-bu2-ul_ ina _su_-szu2 _e11_ x [...]
[x x x] _sikil gi zu2-lum_ el-kul#-[la ...]
[x x x] x [x x] x x sa# _e11_-ma [...]
[...] _sze#_ ina szur-szum-me _kasz_ x [...]
[...] x _la2 en lal2_ usz [...]
[...] ni# i#? [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — BAM 6, 568. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P398532) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P398532..

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