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Sîn-šarru-iškun 06
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High confidence(1) [I, Sîn-šar]ra-iškun, great king, strong king, king of the world, k[ing of Assyria, favored by the deities Aššur], Enlil, (and) Mullissu; pious governor, [... of Ešarra, humble ruler; chos]en by the steadfast hearts of the deities Sîn, Ningal, Šamaš, and Aya; beloved of [the deities Marduk, Zarpanītu, Nabû, (and) Tašmētu; the one chosen by the goddess Ištar who res]ides in Nineveh (and) the goddess Ištar who resides in Arbela, favorit[e of the gods Nergal and Nusku; (5) the one whom (the god) Aššur, the goddess Mulliss]u, and the great gods, my lords, steadfastly l[ooked upon] among my…
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/Q003867/
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Transliteration
[a-na-ku mdEN.ZU]-⸢LUGAL⸣-GAR-un LUGAL GAL LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ ⸢LUGAL⸣ [KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI] / [ni-iš IGI.II AN.ŠÁR] ⸢d⸣EN.LÍL dNIN.LÍL GÌR.NÍTA mut-nen-nu-ú ⸢LÚ⸣.[x x é-šár-ra] / [ma-al-ku šuk-nu-šu i-tu]-ut kun lìb-bi d30 dNIN.GAL dUTU u da-a na-ram [dAMAR.UTU dNUMUN-DÙ-tum dAG dPAPNUN] / [ni?-šu-ut diš-tar a]-⸢ši⸣-bat ⸢NINA⸣.KI diš-tar a-ši-bat LÍMMU-DINGIR.KI mi-⸢gir⸣ [dU.GUR ù dnusku]1 / [šá…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003867.
Attribution
Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2018, 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/Q003867/..
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/Q003867/.
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