Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 1005
Written in modern English
The text is heavily damaged at the start, but what survives describes an adversary who grew proud, forgot the king's past favors, and acted on his own judgment without divine approval. He trusted in his own strength and answered with contempt. Several lines are too broken to read, but the surviving fragments add that he failed to honor — the object is lost — and showed disregard toward the gods.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1') [...] ... [...] my [..., my] strength [...] (his) heart was prou[d ...] he forgot [...] and [did not remember my] favo[r(s) ... (5´) ...] his own judgment and without [divine approval ... He] trusted [in his own strength] and [answered] with disrespect. [...]. He did [not] honor [...] and he [... He did] not [...] ... the gods [...] ... [...]
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[...] x ⸢LU MA?⸣ [...] / [...] x-⸢ia⸣ e-mu-⸢qí⸣-[ia? ...] / [...] lib-bu ig-pu-[uš ...] / [...] in-ši-ma da-mì-iq-[ti ...] / [...] ⸢ṭè⸣-me-šu-ma ba-⸢lu⸣ [DINGIR.MEŠ? ...] / [... a-na e-muq ra-ma-ni-šú] ⸢it⸣-ta-kil-ma da-ṣa-[a-ti ...] / [... la?] iṣ-ṣur-ma ⸢iḫ?⸣-[...] / [...] x ÁB DINGIR.MEŠ la [...] / [...] x x (x) [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003834.
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/Q003834/..
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/Q003834/.
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