RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 007, ex. 003

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P429062

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Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 007, ex. 003. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

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Image: British Museum, London, UK; National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq (P429062) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P429062..

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