RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 004, ex. 016

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392231

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RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 004, ex. 007

P392227 · ~760 BCE

OIM A08003

Transliteration

[...]-ra# ina# _kur#_-ia#
[...] re-sza2-a-szu2
[...] _du#_-ku
[...] ad#-ke
[...]-ru#-szu2
[...]-szak-lil
[...] tem#-me-en-szu2
[...] x
a-na da#-[...]
il-li#-[...]
e-ru-um-[...]
_iri_ sza2 _ad#_ [...]
a#-na mi-s,ir [...]
al#-la#-ku [...]
[x]-sza2#-[...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 004, ex. 016. 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: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P392231) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P392231..

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