RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 09

~580 BCE·Neo-Babylonian·P519724

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The world it comes from

Nebuchadnezzar, exile, late astronomy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P519724)

P519740 · ~1800 BCE

N 0970

Transliteration

[...]-e#-szu
[...]-at#-su
[...]-x-szu#
ia#-ti# [...]
ma-la-ak me2#-[...]
x x x [...]

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — RINBE 2, Neriglissar 03, ex. 09. 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: VAT 22763 — from Bābili (mod. Babylon) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P519724). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P519724..

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