RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 183

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392292

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392292.

Transliteration

[...] x
[...]-ti#?
[...]-szu2?
[...]-ma#-ru
[...]-si-masz
x [x?] x [...]
sza asz2-lu-la [...]
_ugu_ ki-s,ir _lugal_-u2#-ti#-ia [...]
si-it-tu-ti a-na# _nam#-mesz#-[...]_
ma-ha-za-ni u3# gi-mir# [x x]
ki-ma s,e-e#-ni u2#-[x x? x]
i-na u4-me-szu _e2_ ri#-du-u2-ti te#-ne2#-[...]
sza qe2-reb nina _iri_ s,i-i-ru# na#-ram# [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 009, ex. 183. 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 (P392292) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392292..

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