Official or display cylinder excavated in Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures West Asia & North Africa Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Transliteration
object cylinder
surface a
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column 1'
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1'. u4#-mu _masz2-ge6_ an-[...]
2'. {lu2}rak-bu-szu2 isz-pu-ra# [...]
3'. {lu2}gi-mir-ra-a-a _{lu2}kur2#_ [...]
4'. u3 at-tu-u2-a la is,-ba#-[...]
5'. ina tu-kul-ti an-szar2 u# [...]
6'. ina {gesz}s,i-is,-s,i szat qa-ti [...]
7'. it-ti ta-mar-ti-szu2 ka-bit-ti# [...]
single ruling
8'. i-na szal-szi ger-ri-ia _ugu#_ [...]
9'. _lugal_ {kur}man-na-a-a usz-te#-[...]
10'. ina qi2-bit an-szar2 {d}sin [...]
11'. {d}1(u)-5(disz) sza nina{ki} {d}1(u)-5(disz) sza {iri}[...]
12'. [x]-reb# {kur}man-na-a-a e-ru-ub#-[...]
13'. [...] a#-di# s,e#-[...]
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