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Sîn-šarru-iškun 10
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) I, [Sîn-šarra-i]škun, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; the one whom the deities Aššur, [Mullissu, M]arduk, Zarpanītu, Nabû, (and) Tašmētu steadfastly looked upon with their benevolent glance and selected for kingship; whom the light of heaven, the god Sîn, crowned with the crown of lordship to make the foundation of the land firm, to direct the people, to put in order what is confused, (5) (and) to repair what is destroyed; whose hand the god Nabû, overseer of the world, made grasp a just scepter (and) a true staff for shepherding a widespread population;…
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/Q003871/
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Transliteration
a-na-ku m⸢d⸣[30-LUGAL]-⸢iš⸣-kun ⸢LUGAL⸣ GAL LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI / ša AN.ŠÁR ⸢d⸣[NIN.LÍL d]⸢AMAR⸣.UTU dzar-pa-ni-tum dAG dtaš-me-tum ina ni-iš IGI.II-šú-nu SIG₅.MEŠ / ke-niš ip-pal-⸢su⸣-šú-ma is-su-qu-šú a-na LUGAL-u-ti a-na kun-ni SUḪUŠ KUR / šu-te-šur ⸢ba-ʾu-la-a-ti⸣ dal-ḫa-a-ti a-na tu-qu-ni ab-ta*-a-ti1 / a-na ke-še₂₀-ri a-ge-e be-lu-ti i-pi-ru-⸢uš na⸣-an-nàr AN-e d30 /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003871.
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/Q003871/..
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/Q003871/.
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