Nimrud NW Palace zzz010 = RIMA 2.0.101.023, ex. add413

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P416896

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P416894 · ~1950 BCE

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RINBE 1, Nebuchadnezzar II nn, ex. nn

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Transliteration

[...] dan-nu _man szu2 man kur_ aszr _a_ u-erin2-tah2 _man gal_-e _man_ dan#-[...]
[...]-_mesz_ sza2 kib-rat _limmu2_-ta sza2#-nin#-szu2 la-a _tuku?_ [...]
[...]-u2 gap-szu2 sza2 ma#-hi-ru la-a# [...]
[...] x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Nimrud NW Palace zzz010 = RIMA 2.0.101.023, ex. add413. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: ROM 910.092.054 (Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) — from Kalhu (mod. Nimrud) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P416896). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P416896..

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