Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 171
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(o? 1') ... [...] his hea[vy def]eat [... his] offspr[ing ...] provinces of [...] the people [...]. (o? 6') I, Ashurbanipa[l, ...], which I constantly marc[hed through ...] the land Mannea [...] you made bow d[own ...] (obv.? 10´) Er[isinni ...] ... [...] (r? 1') [...] lordly [...], which [...] Teumman, the king of the land Elam, [...] I cut off his head in the assembly of [his troops ...]. Blank space for 2 lines (r? 4') I, Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria: (The god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar, [...], before “May [the Vice]-Regent of (the God) Aššur En[dure],” the ga[te of (the god) Aššur, (...)], they allowed [me] to stand [ove]r my foes, who [...]. Blank space for 2 lines (r? 7') [...] he appointed [...] I placed him [...] Umma[nigaš ...]
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
Transliteration
[x] x x [x] x [...] / [di]-⸢ik⸣-ta-šú ma-aʾ-[as-su ...] / [x] DUMU ṣi-it ⸢lìb⸣-[bi-šú ...] / [(x)] x pa-ḫa-at x [...] / [x] UN.MEŠ [...] / ⸢a-na⸣-ku mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-⸢A⸣ [...] / ša at-tal-⸢la⸣-[ku ...] / KUR.man-na-a-⸢a⸣ [...] / tu-šak-⸢ni⸣-[iš ...] / me-⸢ri⸣-[si-in-ni ...] / [x] x x [...] / [...] x ⸢EN⸣-ti šá MUŠ [...] / [...] ⸢m⸣te-um-man MAN KUR.ELAM.MA.⸢KI⸣ [...] / ⸢ak⸣-kis SAG.DU-su ina UKKIN…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q007579.
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/Q007579/..
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q007579/.
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