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Sîn-šarru-iškun 11
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) I, Sîn-šarra-iškun, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; son of Ashurbanipal, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; son of Esarhaddon, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; son of Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, ruler who has no rival; descendant of Sargon (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad: (2b)…
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/Q003872/
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Transliteration
a-na-ku md30-⸢LUGAL⸣-GAR-un MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI A maš-šur-DÙ-A MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.⸢KI⸣ MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI A maš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI A md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU1 / MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI NUN la šá-na-an ŠÀ.BAL.BAL mLUGAL-GI.NA MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003872.
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/Q003872/..
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/Q003872/.
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