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Sîn-šarru-iškun 09
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1') As[syria]; the one who[m (the god) Aššur], the king [of the gods], with [his] benevol[ent] g[lance], looked [with] ple[asure upon and] selecte[d] for king[ship; to] ma[ke firm] (ii 1) [...] ... [to make the foundation of] the land [f]irm, [to dir]ect [the peo]ple of [As]syria, [...] ... (iii 1) governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sum[er] and Akk[ad]; (5) son of Sennac[herib], grea[t] king, stro[ng] king, king of [the world], (iv 1) they (the gods) [guided me and] ... [...] (vi 1') [May they (the gods) make his name, his seed], (and) his offspring [disa]ppear [from the land]. (vi 3') [..., ... day], eponymy of [Aššur-mātu]-taqqin, [gover]nor of [the city (Up)pummu].
Source: Novotny, J. & Jeffers, J. 2018–. The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria. RINAP 5. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/Q003870/
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Transliteration
⸢KUR AN⸣.[ŠÁR.KI] / ša [AN.ŠÁR] / LUGAL [DINGIR.MEŠ] / ina ni-[iš IGI.II-šú] / dam-qa-⸢a⸣-[ti] / ḫa-[diš] / ip-pal-⸢su⸣-[šú-ma] / is-su-⸢qu⸣-[šú] / ⸢a-na LUGAL⸣-[u-ti] / [a-na] ⸢kun⸣-[ni] / [...]-ú / [...]-u-a / [a-na] ⸢kun?⸣-ni / [SUḪUŠ] KUR / [šu-te]-šur / [ba-ʾu-la]-⸢a⸣-ti / [KUR AN].⸢ŠÁR⸣.KI / [...] x PA / šak-ka-nak-ku / KÁ.DINGIR.RA.⸢KI⸣ / LUGAL KUR EME.⸢GI₇⸣ / ù ⸢URI⸣.KI / DUMU…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003870.
Attribution
Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2018, for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003870/..
Translation excerpted from Novotny, J. & Jeffers, J. 2018–. The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria. RINAP 5. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/Q003870/.
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