Position in chronology
Aššur-etel-ilāni 06
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1) The tomb of Šamaš-ibni, the Dakkurian, upon whom Aššur-etel-ilāni, king of Assyria, had pity, brought from Assyria to Bīt-Dakkūri, his (own) country, and laid to rest in a tomb inside his home of Dūru-ša-Ladīni (“Fortress of Ladīnu”). (4) Whoever you are, whether governor or commander or judge or prince, who is appointed in the land, do not harm this tomb or (its) bone(s)! (But rather) look after its position (and) extend (your) good protection over it! For (doing) this, may the god Marduk, the great lord, lengthen your reign, establish his good protection over you, (and) bless your name,…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
KI.MAḪ šá mdUTU-ib-ni DUMU mda-ku-⸢ru šá⸣ mAN.ŠÁR-NIR.GÁL-DINGIR.MEŠ LUGAL KUR aš-šur / re-e-mu ir-šá-áš-šum-ma ul-tu qé-reb KUR aš-šur a-na É-mda-kur KUR-šú / ú-bil-la-áš-šum-ma ina KI.MAḪ ina qé-reb É-šú šá BÀD-šá-la-di-ni ú-šá-aṣ-li-lu-šú / man-nu at-ta lu-ú LÚ.šak-nu LÚ.šá-pi-ru lu-ú da-a-a-nu / lu-ú NUN šá ina KUR iš-šak-ka-nu a-na KI.MAḪ u e-ṣe-et-ti1 / šu-a-ti la ta-ḫa-aṭ-ṭu a-šar-šú ú-ṣur…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003861.
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/Q003861/..
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/Q003861/.
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