RINAP 4 Esarhaddon 128, ex. 006

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P450543

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450543.

Transliteration

[a-na un-gal] nibru# ma-al-kat2# x x x x [...]
[...] szap#-tusz-sza2 _tin u4-mesz#?_ [...] lib3#-bi li-szim [...]
[...]-rat# _ud-mesz nun egir_-u2 sza2 i-na u4#-[...] ma-qit-ti i-rasz-szu-u2 asz2-ra-ti-szu2# lisz-[...]
[...] szi#-t,ir _mu_-ia _i3-gesz_ lip-szu-usz _siskur2#_ [...]-bi#-szu2 _dingir-mesz_ i-szem-mu-u2 ur-rak _u4-mesz_ u2#-[...]
[...]-u2# szi-t,ir _mu_-ia ina szi-pir ni-kil-ti ib#-[...] a#-szar-szu2 u2#-[...]
[...] _nibru# gaszan gal_-ti ag-gisz lik-kil-me-[...] _numun#_-szu2 i-na nap-har _kur-kur_ [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 4 Esarhaddon 128, ex. 006. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P450543) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450543..

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