Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 145
Translation · reference
High confidenceObverse completely missing (r 1') [...] great [god]s [... which the deities Aššur, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Bēl (Marduk), Nabû, Ištar of Nineveh, Šar]rat-Kidmuri, Ištar of Arbela, Ninurta, [Nergal, and Nusku ...], who support me, to ... [...]. (r 4') [(As for) Tammarītu, Paʾê, (and)] Umm[analdašu (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš III), who] had exercised dominion over the land Elam [after o]ne another, [(and) Uaiteʾ, the king of the land of the Arabs whose defeat I had brought abo]ut (and whom) I had taken to As[syria], together with plunder from his land — [I made the]m [take hold of the yoke of (my) processional…
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/Q007553/
Why it matters
Names three successive Elamite kings — Tammarītu, Paʾê, and Ḫumban-ḫaltaš III — alongside the Arab king Uaiteʾ as captives yoked to Ashurbanipal's chariot, anchoring the chronology of Elam's final collapse under Assyrian pressure.
Transliteration
[... DINGIR].⸢MEŠ GAL.MEŠ⸣ x [...] / [ša AN.ŠÁR d30 dUTU dIŠKUR dEN dAG d15 šá NINA.KI dšar]-⸢rat-kid⸣-mu-ri d15 ša LÍMMU-DINGIR.KI ⸢dMAŠ d⸣[U.GUR u dnusku] / [...] x [...] ⸢tik⸣-le-ia a-na da-⸢ba?⸣-[x x (x)] / [mtam-ma-ri-tú mpa-ʾe-e m]⸢um-man⸣-[al-daš ša EGIR] ⸢a⸣-ḫa-meš e-pu-šú be-lut KUR.⸢ELAM⸣.[MA.KI] / [mú-a-a-te-eʾ MAN KUR.a-ri-bi ša BAD₅.BAD₅-šú áš-ku]-⸢nu it⸣-ti šal-⸢lat⸣ KUR-šú…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007553.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P396499). 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/Q007553/.
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