Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 1010
Translation · reference
High confidence(o 1') [...] (the god) Aššur [...] ... [... the goddess Išta]r, the lady who loves me, ... [...] ... to/for [... from] my childhood until I became an adult, I took hold of the he[m of] her [divinit]y (and) I constantly followed [... (5´) ...] she guarded (me) with her benevole[nt] protection [...] I made [..., h]er hand, which [sustains] my life, guided me [...] she constantly kept sending [me message(s) from] my ecstatics [...] I killed my enemies (and) flattened ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] (r 1') [...] I went ... [...] ... [... i]nside the mountains, his watering place, [..., I captured]…
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/Q003839/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[...] x [...] x [...] / [...] x AN.ŠÁR x [...] x NIŠ? x [...] / [... diš]-⸢tar?⸣ GAŠAN ta-ra-ma-an-ni x x ⸢TA? LA?⸣ [x x (x)] x x x KUR? a-na x [...] / [... ul-tu] ⸢ṣe⸣-ḫe-ri-ia a-di ra-bé-ia TÚG.⸢SÍG?⸣ [DINGIR?]-⸢ti?⸣-šá? ⸢aṣ?-bat at?⸣-tal-lak x [...]1 / [...] x ⸢ta-aṣ⸣-ṣur ina GIŠ.MI-šá ṭa-a-[bi x x] x A e-pu-uš x [...] / [...] ⸢ta⸣-at-tar-ra-an-ni ⸢qa-as-sa⸣ šá ba-la-ṭi ⸢TA?⸣ [...] / [...…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003839.
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/Q003839/..
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/Q003839/.
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