Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 195
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) O Aššur, the great mountain, [...], the sublime one [who resides] i[n] Eḫur[saggalkurkurra, ...], the lord of the crown, ... [...] by whose exalt[ed] command [...], (5) the fierce deluge [...], who, by the weapons of [his mighty] battle array, [...] and together with mankin[d ...] you swept over them like [...] you imposed [...] on the lands [...]. (10) Dunānu, son of Bē[l-iqīša, ...] who spoke w[ords of ...] and you, kin[g of the gods ...]. Him, together with [his] famil[y ...] who to Sargon (II) [...] (15) kings who preced[ed me ...]. Moreover, he, Aplāya [... who] constantly harassed…
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/Q007603/
Why it matters
Transliteration
AN.ŠÁR KUR-⸢ú GAL-ú⸣ [...] / šá-qu-ú ⸢ina é-ḫur⸣-[sag-gal-kur-kur-ra áš-bu? ...] / EN a-ge-e x x [...] / ša a-na a-mat-i-šú ⸢ṣi-ir⸣-[ti ...] / a-bu-bu ez-zu x [...] / šá a-na GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ ta-ḫa-⸢zi⸣-[šú? ...] / ù a-di a-me-lu-⸢ti⸣ [...] / tar-ḫi-su-nu-ti GIM x [...] / te-mid KUR.KUR x (x) [...] / mdu-na-nu DUMU m⸢EN⸣-[BA-šá ...] / ⸢ša⸣ iq-bu-ú a-[mat ...] / ù at-ta ⸢LUGAL⸣ [DINGIR.MEŠ ...] /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007603.
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/Q007603/..
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/Q007603/.
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