Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 170
Translation · reference
High confidence(o? 1') [...] ... [... I marched again]st Teu[mman, the king of the land Elam who, concerning Ummanigaš, Ummanappa, (and) Tammarītu — the so]ns of Urtaku — Kudurru (and) [Parrû — the sons of Ummanaldašu (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš II), the brother of Urtaku, (former) king of the land Elam] — them, together with sixty members of the royal (family), [count]less [archers, (and) nobles of the land Elam who had fled to me and grasped my feet] — concerning (all) those people, [he had regularly sent his] env[oys (asking me) to send (them back) ...]. (o? 6') He, Teumman, to the [Ulāya] Ri[ver ...]. I trusted in…
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/Q007578/
Why it matters
Attests Teumman of Elam's demand that Ashurbanipal extradite sixty royal Elamite refugees — a casus belli for the 653 BCE campaign that ended at the Battle of the Ulāya River.
Transliteration
[x x (x)] x x [...] / [x (x)] ⸢UGU?⸣ mte-⸢um⸣-[man MAN KUR.ELAM.MA.KI lu-u? al-lik? ša UGU mum-man-i-gaš mum-man-ap-pa mtam-ma-ri-tu] / ⸢DUMU.MEŠ⸣ mur-ta-ki mku-dúr-⸢ru⸣ [mpa-ru-ú DUMU.MEŠ mum-man-al-da-še ŠEŠ mur-ta-ki MAN KUR.ELAM.MA.KI] / ⸢šu-nu⸣ a-di 60 NUMUN MAN ina la [mì-ni ERIM.MEŠ GIŠ.PAN DUMU ba-né-e ša KUR.ELAM.MA.KI šá in-nab-tú-nim-ma iṣ-ba-tú GÌR.II-ia] / ⸢UGU⸣ ERIM.MEŠ šá-tu-nu…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007578.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P394578). 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/Q007578/.
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