As far as I know, the precise **conjecture** for what you are asking is: > All the elements of the Selberg class that are not Artin L-functions > are: > - motivic L-functions of dimension bigger than 0. > - transcendental L-functions Note that Artin L-functions are the 0-dimensional motivic L-functions. Also, transcendental L-function is an umbrella term for automorphic L-functions that are not motivic.