Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 094
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1') [...] his [...] Babylo[n ... (i 5´) ... I tore] out and [... qui]ckly [... hi]s [... my temper] turned ho[t ...] who dwells in [...] he sent [...] (and) quickly [... (i 10´) ...] ... [...] his ... [...] (ii 1') [(As for) the entire (area) between the (Ulāya and Idide) river(s), I conquere]d [the city Madaktu, a royal city, along with its district. I conque]red [the city Ḫaltemaš, a royal city of his. I co]nquered [the city Susa, a royal city of his. I conqu]ered [the city Dinšarri, a royal city of his. (ii 5´) I con]qu[e]red [the city Sumuntunaš, a royal city of his]. I conquered [the…
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/Q003793/
Why it matters
Records Ashurbanipal's systematic conquest of Elamite royal cities — Madaktu, Susa, Ḫaltemaš and others — providing the Assyrian court's own account of the campaigns that effectively ended the Elamite state, c. 647 BCE.
Transliteration
[...] x [...] / [...] x-šú x [...] / [...] AN [...] / [...] x KÁ.DINGIR.⸢RA⸣.[KI ...] / [... as-su?]-ḫa-am-ma x [...] / [... ḫa]-⸢an⸣-ṭiš? x [...] / [...]-⸢šú⸣ iṣ-ṣa-ru-⸢uḫ⸣ [ka-bat-ti?] / [...] x ⸢a?⸣-šib? x [...] / [... ú]-⸢ma⸣-ʾe-er ⸢ḫa⸣-an-⸢ṭiš⸣ / [...] x x x x / [...] x-bi-šú / [...] x / [URU LUGAL-ti a-di na-ge-šú KUR]-⸢ud⸣1 2 / [URU.ḫal-te-ma-áš URU LUGAL-ti-šú KUR]-ud / [URU.šu-šá-an URU…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003793.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P394782). 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/Q003793/.
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