Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 253
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) To the god Nabû, the powerful heir [... h]ero of the gods, eminent, exalted, splendid, scribe of Esagil, f[oremost] son, [...], who bears the tablet of the fates of the gods, who controls the omens, prince of the g[reat] gods, [(...) the one who directs the Igīgū and] Anunnakū gods, who gives advice to the gods of heaven (and) netherworld, powerful ... [...] whose weapons cannot be equaled, (5) firstborn son of the god Asari (Marduk), offspring of the goddess [Erua (Zarpanītu), ...] whose lordship is supreme, who dwells in Ezida — the proper temple — lord of Borsi[ppa — the] awesome [cult…
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/Q008342/
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Transliteration
a-na dAG IBILA gaš-⸢ri⸣ x (x) [...] ⸢ur?⸣-šá-ni DINGIR.MEŠ ti-iz-qar šá-qu-u muš-tar-ḫu / DUB.⸢SAR⸣ é-sag-⸢íl⸣ ma-⸢ru?⸣ a-[šá-re-du ...] ⸢na⸣-šu-u ṭup-pi NAM.MEŠ DINGIR.MEŠ šá gu-um-mur/muru te-re-e-ti1 / e-tel-⸢li⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ ⸢GAL⸣.[MEŠ ... d]⸢a-nun-na⸣-ki šá-kin ši-tul-tú a-na DINGIR.MEŠ šu-ut AN KI2 / kap-ka-pu x x x x (x)-a-ti x x [...] ⸢šá⸣ la iš-šá-an-na-nu GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ-šú / bu-kúr…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q008342.
Attribution
Image: Based on Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC) (RIMB 2; Toronto, 1995). Digitized, lemmatized, and updated by Alexa Bartelmus, 2015-16, for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q008342/..
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/Q008342/.
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