Official or display tablet excavated in Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik), dated to the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK
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Transliteration
tablet
obverse
column 1
beginning broken
1'. [...] x x x [...]
2'. [e]-disz ip-pa-ar-szu2 a-szar# [la 'a-a-ri]
single ruling
3'. [i-na] mah#-re-e-ia [ger-ri-ia]
4'. [sza {disz}{d}]mes#-a-szum2-na _lugal_ {kur}kar2#-[{d}dun-ia2-asz3]
5'. [a-di _erin2-hi]-a#_ elam-ma{ki} re-[s,i-szu2]
6'. [i-na ta-mir]-ti# kisz{ki} asz2-ta-kan# [_bad5-bad5_-szu2]
7'. [i-na _murub4_ tam-ha]-ri# szu-a-tu e-zib [_karasz_-su]
8'. [e-disz ip-par]-szid#-ma na-pisz-tusz# [e-t,i2-ir]
9'. _[{gesz}gigir-mesz ansze-kur-ra]-mesz#_ {gesz}s,u-um-bi [_ansze-kunga-mesz_]
10'. [sza i-na qit-ru-ub ta-ha-zi] u2#-masz#-szi#-ru# [ik-szu-da]
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