Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 093
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') ... [...] two tall obelisks [cast with shiny zaḫalû-metal, whose weight was 2,500 talents (and which) stood at a temple gate, I ripped (them)] from where th[ey] were erected [and took (them) to Assyria]. (4') On my second campaign, [I marched] ag[ainst Baʾalu, the king of the land Tyre who resides in the middle of the sea]. Because he did not honor my royal command(s and) did not obe[y the pronouncement(s) from my lips], I set up outposts against him. By sea (and) dry land, [I took control of (all of) his] r[outes]. I constricted (and) cut short their lives. I made [them (the people of…
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/Q003792/
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Transliteration
(traces) [...] / 2 GIŠ.⸢tim⸣-me MAḪ.⸢MEŠ⸣ [pi-tiq za-ḫa-le-e eb-bi ša 2 LIM 5 ME GUN KI.LÁ-šú-nu man-za-az KÁ É.KUR] / ul-tu man-zal-⸢ti-šú⸣-[nu as-suḫ-ma al-qa-a a-na KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI] / i-na 2-e ger-ri-⸢ia UGU⸣ [mba-ʾa-li LUGAL KUR.ṣur-ri a-šib MURUB₄ tam-tim al-lik] / ša a-mat LUGAL-ti-ia la iṣ-ṣu-⸢ru la iš-mu⸣-[u zi-kir šap-ti-ia] / URU.ḪAL.ṢU.MEŠ UGU-šú ú-rak-kis ina tam-tim ⸢na⸣-ba-li…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003792.
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/Q003792/..
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/Q003792/.
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