RINAP 4 Esarhaddon 128, ex. 007

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P450544

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450544.

Transliteration

[...] s,ir#-ti ti-iz-qar#-ti sza2-ru-uh#?-[...]
[...]-an#-ti-isz it#-[...] da#-na#-nu u3#? [...]
[...] _e2#_ mu-kin szu-bat _lugal_-u2-tu _gaszan_ [...]
[...]-nu _lugal szu2 lugal kur_ asz-szur _lugal#_ [...]-ri# u uri i-tu-ut kun# lib3#-[...]
[... ]utu# iszkur# [...]
[...]
[...] in#-na#-[...] ma#-qit#-[x]-szu2 lik#-[...]
[...] _bala#_-qi2 ina# [x]-ri#-szu2# lisz#-[...]-rap#?-pa-asz2 [...]
[...]-tu# lu-u2 a#-[x]-szu2 u2#-[...]
[...]-ma# _mu#_-szu2 _numun_-szu2 <ina> nap-har# _kur-kur_ [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 4 Esarhaddon 128, ex. 007. 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 (P450544) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P450544..

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