Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 148
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1') [... w]ho forgot [...] I brought about his [def]eat [...] ... to the temple [... (5´) ... through the cra]ft of the deities Nina[gal, Kusibanda, (and) Ninkurra, ...] ... before the goddesses Mulli[ssu, ...], Ištar of Nineveh, Š[arrat-Kidmuri, ...]
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Why it matters
Invokes the craft deities Ninagal, Kusibanda, and Ninkurra alongside Mullissu and Ištar of Nineveh, preserving late Sargonid royal theology linking divine artisanship to military victory.
Transliteration
[...] x [...] / [...] ⸢im⸣-šu-ú x [...] / [... BAD₅].BAD₅-šú áš-kun ⸢ID⸣ [...] / [...]-⸢ka?⸣-bu a-na É.KUR x [...] / [... ina ši]-⸢pir⸣ dnin-á-[gal ...] / [...] x-lu-ú ma-ḫar dNIN.[LÍL? ...] / [...] x ⸢d15⸣ ša NINA.KI d⸢šar⸣-[rat-kid-mu-ri ...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007556.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P426235). 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/Q007556/.
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