Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 019
Translation · reference
High confidence(i' 1') (No translation possible) (i' 4') [My battle troops (who are stationed) in the city Mang]isi — which is inside (the territory of) the city [Sumandir — came up against them] and brought about [their] de[feat]. They cut [off] the heads [of Un]dasu — a son of Teumm[an, a (former) king of the land Elam — Za]za[z], Parrû, (and) [Atta-metu, and] they brought (them) before [me]. (i' 10') I dispatched my messenger to Ummanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš II) regarding these matters. He detained the eunuch of mine whom I had sent (Marduk-šarru-uṣur) to inquire about his well-being and did not give a r[e]ply…
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/Q003718/
Why it matters
Documents Assyrian military operations against Elamite royal survivors after the fall of Teumman, then records a diplomatic rupture: Ummanigaš detained Ashurbanipal's envoy and broke off communication — a prelude to renewed Assyrian-Elamite war.
Transliteration
[...] x [...] / [...] x x x (x) x [...] / [...] x x x Ú x [...] / [ERIM.MEŠ MÈ-ia ina URU.man]-⸢gi⸣-si šá qé-reb URU?.[su-man-dir] / [EDIN-uš-šú-un e-lu-nim]-ma? iš?-ku?-nu? ⸢taḫ?⸣-[ta-šú-un] / [ša mun]-da?-si? DUMU mte-⸢um-man⸣ [LUGAL KUR.ELAM.MA.KI] / [ša mza]-⸢za-az⸣ mpar-ru-ú m[at-ta-me-tu] / ⸢SAG⸣.DU.MEŠ-⸢šu?⸣-nu? KUD?-su?-[nim-ma] / ú-bil-u-ni a-di maḫ-ri-[ia] / šu-ut a-ma-a-ti an-na-a-ti…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003718.
Attribution
Image: BM 128244 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P422992). 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/Q003718/.
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