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Sîn-šarru-iškun 12
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High confidence(1) I, Sîn-šarra-iškun, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; son of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyri[a]; son of Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Ass[yria]; (5) son of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria; [de]s[cenda]nt of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, [governor of B]abylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad: (8) At [the beginning of] my [king]ship, when the deities Aššur, Bēl (Marduk), Nabû, (and) [Ištar] gladly placed me (10) on the th[rone of the fa]ther who had engendered me, in place of an empty lot I built…
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/Q003873/
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Transliteration
a-na-ku md30-LUGAL-iš-kun / MAN GAL MAN KAL MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI / A maš-šur-DÙ-A MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-⸢šur⸣.[KI] / A maš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-⸢šur⸣.KI / A m30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / ⸢ŠÀ⸣.[BAL].BAL mLUGAL-GI.NA MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / [GÌR.NÍTA] ⸢KÁ⸣.DINGIR.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u ⸢URI.KI⸣ / ina [SAG] ⸢LUGAL⸣-ti-ia šá AN.ŠÁR ⸢dEN? d⸣MUATI / d[iš-tar?] ⸢ṭa⸣-biš ú-⸢še-šib-u-in⸣-ni / ina…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003873.
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/Q003873/..
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/Q003873/.
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