Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 1004
Written in modern English
The opening lines are heavily broken, but Aššur is named as lord and is connected to ruling over lands and peoples; Taharqa is mentioned by name, along with governors, though the surrounding context is lost. Several lines on the reverse are too damaged to translate at all. What remains legible at the end records that this text was inscribed on the inner sanctum of a temple whose name is no longer readable.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1') [...], my [lo]rd, (the god) Aššur, who ... [... for rul]ing over the lands and people [...] set out, Taharqa [...], governors, [...] (r 1') (No translation possible) (r 4') That which is (written) upon the inner sanctum of the temple of [...].
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[...] ⸢EN-ia⸣ AN.ŠÁR šá (traces) [...] / [... a-na be]-⸢lu⸣-ut KUR.KUR ù UN.MEŠ [...] / [...] ⸢it⸣-ba-a mtar-qu-u [...] / [...] ⸢LÚ⸣.NAM.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] / [...] KUR x [...] / [...] x IB x [...] / [...] NA it-ti [...] / ša ina UGU at-man É [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003833.
Attribution
Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Joshua Jeffers, 2018-19, for the NEH-funded RINAP Project at the University of Pennsylvania. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0.. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003833/..
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/Q003833/.
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