Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 181
Translation · reference
High confidence(o? 1') [I, Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, who by the command of (the god) Aššur] (and) the goddess Mu[llissu a]chi[eved his heart’s desire: Um]manigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš II) [dispatched them (his forces) to Undasu, a s]on of Teum[man — a (former) king of the land Elam — Zazaz, the city ruler of the c]ity Pillatu, (and) [Parr]û, the [city ruler of the land Ḫilmu, to help] Šamaš-šuma-ukīn — [(my) unfaithful] b[rother — (and) to fight with the troops of Assyria] (r? 1') (No translation possible) (r? 2') [I], Ashurbani[pal, king of Assyria, who b]y the command of (the god) Aššur (and) the goddess…
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/Q007589/
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Transliteration
[šá ina qí-bit AN.ŠÁR] ⸢dNIN⸣.[LÍL] ⸢ik-šu⸣-[du ṣu-me-rat ŠÀ-šú]1 / [ṣe-er mun-da-si] ⸢DUMU⸣ mte-um-[man LUGAL KUR.ELAM.MA.KI] / [mza-za-az LÚ.EN.URU] ⸢URU⸣.pil-la-ti m[par-ru]-⸢u LÚ⸣.[EN.URU KUR.ḫi-il-mu] / [a-na re-ṣu-ut md]GIŠ.NU₁₁-⸢MU-GI.NA ŠEŠ?⸣ [NU GI.NA a-na mit-ḫu-ṣi] / [ERIM.ḪI.A KUR aš-šur.KI mum]-⸢man⸣-i-⸢gaš⸣ [ú-ma-ʾe-er-šú-nu-ti] / [...] x ḪU x [...] / [a-na-ku] ⸢m⸣AN.ŠÁR-DÙ-[A MAN…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007589.
Attribution
Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Joshua Jeffers, 2018-22, 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/Q007589/..
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/Q007589/.
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