Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 088
Translation · reference
High confidence(i' 1') (No translation possible) (ii' 1') (No translation possible) (ii' 2') [A]fter [Indabibi (...) sat] on the throne of [Tammarītu] (and) exercised dom[inion over the land Elam], (ii´ 5´) (as for) the [Assyria]ns whom Nabû-bēl-šum[āti, (grand)son of Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan), had seized] by guil[e during the night] (and) taken [(to Elam) with him], Indabib[i, the king of the land Elam], (ii´ 10´) in order to prevent (me) from doing har[m to the territory of his land, sent (them) before me] by the hands of hi[s] messenger. (ii' 12') With regard to Nabû-bēl-šumāti,…
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/Q003787/
Why it matters
Records Elamite king Indabibi's return of Assyrian captives seized by Nabû-bēl-šumāti — a grandson of the legendary Babylonian rebel Merodach-baladan — documenting the tangled dynastic hostilities of the mid-7th century BCE.
Transliteration
[...] x / [x] x x x [...] / ⸢ul⸣-tu ⸢m⸣[in-da-bi-bi (...)]1 / ina GIŠ.GU.ZA ⸢m⸣[tam-ma-ri-tu ú-ši-bu] / e-pu-šú ⸢be⸣-[lut KUR.ELAM.MA.KI] / DUMU.MEŠ [KUR aš-šur.KI]2 / ša ⸢m⸣d⸢AG⸣-EN-⸢MU⸣.[MEŠ DUMU mdAMAR.UTU-A-SUM.NA/AŠ] / ina pi-ir-ṣa-⸢a⸣-[ti ina šat mu-ši uṣ-ṣab-bi-tu]3 / ú-bi-lu [it-ti-šú] / min-da-bi-⸢bi⸣ [LUGAL KUR.ELAM.MA.KI]4 / áš-šú la ḫa-ṭe-[e mi-ṣir KUR-šú] / ina ŠU.II LÚ.A KIN-⸢šú⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003787.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P394791). source
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/Q003787/.
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