Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 177
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] (2') [I, Ashurbani]pal, king of Assyria, [whom (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar made stand over his foes (and who) a]chieved [his heart’s] desir[es: Tammarītu, the king of the land Elam, set out to aid Ša]maš-šuma-ukīn — [(my) hostile brother — (5´) (and) to fight with] my [troop]s. [He, together with his brothers, his family, the seed of h]is [father’s house], and [his] nobl[es fled to Nineveh] f[rom Indabibi, a servant of his who] had incited [rebellion against him, and (then)] ki[ssed the feet of m]y [royal majesty and made an appea]l [to my lordly majesty to do obeisance to me]. (10') [Ummanigaš, who forgot] the kindness of [Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, his lord],
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/Q007585/
Why it matters
Records the Elamite king Tammarītu's flight to Nineveh and submission to Ashurbanipal after his own servant Indabibi overthrew him — a rare first-person royal account of Elam's internal collapse during the Assyro-Elamite wars.
Transliteration
[...] x [...] / [a-na-ku mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ]-⸢A⸣ MAN KUR ⸢AN.ŠÁR.KI⸣ [šá AN.ŠÁR u d15 ṣe-er ga-re-e-šú] / [ú-šá-zi-zu-šú] ⸢im⸣-ṣu-u ma-⸢la⸣ [lìb-bi-šú mtam-ma-ri-tú MAN KUR.ELAM.MA.KI] / [a-na kit-ri mdGIŠ].NU₁₁-MU-GI.NA [ŠEŠ nak-ri it-ba-a] / [a-na mit-ḫu-uṣ ERIM].⸢ḪI⸣.A-ia ⸢la⸣-[pa-an min-da-bi-bi ARAD-šú] / [ša si-ḫu UGU-šú] ⸢ú⸣-šab-⸢šú⸣-[u šu-u a-di ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šú] / [qin-ni-šú NUMUN É AD]-⸢šú⸣ u…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007585.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P400403). 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/Q007585/.
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