RINAP 3/2 Sennacherib 216, ex. 002

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P427847

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Transliteration

a-na# u-gur _en_-szu2
sin-szesz-mesz-eri-ba
_man# kur_ asz-szur e2#-gal-lam-mes
sza2 _sza3_ tar-bi-s,i
ul-tu2 _usz8_-szu2 _en_ gaba-dib-bi-szu2
_du3_-usz u2-szak-lil

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 3/2 Sennacherib 216, ex. 002. 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 (P427847) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P427847..

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