RINAP 3/1 Sennacherib 016, ex. 014 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P424908

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Rm 1002

Transliteration

[...]-eri#-ba
[...] _lugal#_ kisz-sza2-ti
[...]-rat# _limmu2_-ti
[x]-gir# _dingir-mesz gal-mesz_
[...]-im mi-sza2-ri
[x]-lik# tap#-pu-ut# a-ki#-i#
[...] dam#-qa#-a#-ti#
na#-gu#-u2# [...]
as,-bat 1(disz)-en# [...]
2(u)# _ansze zu2-lum#-[x_]
a#-na# _dingir#_ [...]
_en#-mesz#_-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 3/1 Sennacherib 016, ex. 014 ?. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: British Museum, London, UK (P424908) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P424908..

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