Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 091
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1') [I constricted (and)] cut sho[rt their lives. I made] them (the people of Tyre) [b]ow down [to my yoke]. (i 3') He (Baʾalu) brought before me [(his) daughter], his [own offspring], and the daughters of his brothers [to serve as housekeepers. (i 5´) He sent at the same time his son, who] had n[ever] crossed the sea, to do obeisance to me. [I received from him his daughter and the daughters of his brothers, tog]ether with a large marriage gift. [I had mercy on him and (then)] I gave (his) son, his offspring, back to him. (i 9') [(As for) Yakīn-Lû, the king of the city Arw]ad, who resides…
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/Q003790/
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Transliteration
[nap-šat-su-nu ú-si-iq ú]-kar-⸢ri⸣ / [a-na GIŠ.ŠUDUN-ia ú-šak]-⸢ni⸣-is-su-nu-ti / [DUMU.MUNUS ṣi-it lìb-bi]-⸢šú⸣ ù DUMU.MUNUS.MEŠ ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šú / [a-na e-peš MUNUS].⸢AGRIG⸣-ti ú-bi-la ⸢a⸣-di maḫ-ri-⸢ia⸣ / [DUMU-šú ša ma-ti]-⸢ma⸣ ti-amtu la e-bi-ra / [iš-te-niš ú-še-bi-la] ⸢a⸣-na e-peš ARAD-ti-ia / [DUMU.MUNUS-su ù DUMU.MUNUS.MEŠ ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šú] ⸢it⸣-ti ter-ḫa-ti ma-aʾ-a-si / [am-ḫur-šú re-e-mu…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003790.
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/Q003790/..
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/Q003790/.
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