Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 157
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1) [... the daughter of the god] Sîn, the female warrior, [...] her favorite [broth]er, [...] the king who reveres her, [...] king of Assyria, [... Sennach]erib, king of Assyria — (6) [...] I conquered their kings [a]bove and below. [...] I fought [with] his numerous troops (and) [brought about] his defeat. [...] I overthrew his throne (and) scattered his forces. [...] three kings who had exercised dominion over the land Elam after one another, (10) [...] they fled [from my m]ighty [...] and grasped the feet of h[is] royal majesty. [...] of his kingship was not pleasing to your exa[lted]…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Why it matters
Chronicles Ashurbanipal's successive defeats of three Elamite kings, placing Elam's serial dynastic collapses within the framework of Ištar's divine patronage of Assyrian military power.
Transliteration
[... DUMU.MUNUS d]⸢30⸣ qa-rit-tu / [...] ⸢ŠEŠ⸣ ta-li-mì-šá / [...] ⸢LUGAL⸣ pa-liḫ-i-šá / [...] ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI / [... md30-PAP.MEŠ]-⸢SU LUGAL⸣ KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI / [... e]-⸢liš⸣ u šap-liš ak-šú-da LUGAL.MEŠ-šú-un / [... it-ti] ⸢ERIM⸣.ḪI.⸢A⸣-šú ma-aʾ-du am-ḫa-ṣa BAD₅.BAD₅-šú / [...] x x ⸢GIŠ.GU⸣.ZA-šú ás-ki-pa ú-sap-pi-ḫa el-lat-su / [...] x 3 LUGAL.MEŠ šá EGIR a-⸢ḫa⸣-meš e-pu-šú be-lut…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007565.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P394562). 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/Q007565/.
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