Position in chronology
Aššur-etel-ilāni 04
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1a) For the god Uraš, exalted lord, foremost of the great gods of E-ibbi-Anum — the shrine (which is) worthy of honor — great lord, his lord: (2b) Aššur-etel-ilāni, king of Assyria, who renovated the shrine(s) of the great gods, son of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, shepherd of the black-headed, renovated E-ibbi-Anum, the holy place which is inside Dilbat, the abode of the god Uraš and the goddess Ninegal. He built (it) anew with baked bricks, the craft of the god Baḫar and, with regard to the foundation of the well, he (re-)established its position just as (it had been) in ancient times.…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
a-na duraš EN MAḪ SAG.KAL DINGIR.ME GAL.ME é-i-bí-da-num BÁRA ra-aš-bu EN GAL-u EN-šú mAN.ŠAR₄-NIR.GÁL-DINGIR.ME MAN KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI / mu-ud-diš BÁRA DINGIR.ME GAL.MEŠ <<GAL.ME>> DUMU m⸢AN⸣.ŠÁR-DÙ-A MAN KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI SIPA ṣal-mat SAG.DU é-i-bí-da-num áš-ri el-lu / šá qé-reb dil-bat.KI šu-bat duraš u dnin-é-⸢gal⸣ uš-šiš a-gur-ru pi-ti-iq dbáḫar eš-šiš ib-ni-ma SUḪUŠ PÚ KI-šú1 / ki-i pi-i…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003859.
Attribution
Image: Based on Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC) (RIMB 2; Toronto, 1995). Digitized, lemmatized, and updated by Alexa Bartelmus, 2015-16, 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/Q003859/..
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/Q003859/.
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