Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 1001
Written in modern English
The tablet opens with a name — Ashur- or Esar-something, son of someone — but both are broken beyond recovery. Several lines on the front face are too damaged for any translation. On the back, a partial account survives: half a ration of bread and half a ration of beer were issued at a watering place connected to an unnamed stronghold, and a city name follows that is now lost. The last legible phrase reads 'second extract,' but the surrounding lines are gone.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(o 1) Ashur/Esar/Aššur-[..., ...], son of [..., ...] (o 3) (No translation possible) (r 1') [f]rom the watering place fo[r his stronghold ...] 1/2 bread (and) 1/2 beer from the watering plac[e ...] ... the city [...]. (r 4') [(...)] second extract [...].
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
mAN.ŠÁR-[...] / ⸢DUMU m⸣[...] / e-[...] / KIN x [...] / ša [...] / ša [...] / ša [...] / DIŠ x [...] / ŠE?/60? x [...] / ⸢man?-ma?⸣ [...] / x [...] / x [...] / ⸢TA ŠÀ mal-qi⸣-te ⸢ša⸣ [É tuk-la-ti-šú? ...] / ⸢1/2⸣ NINDA 1/2 ⸢KAŠ TA⸣ ŠÀ mal-qi-⸢te⸣ [...] / x.⸢MEŠ? ŠAḪ?⸣ URU x [...] / [(x x)] ⸢nis-ḫu⸣ 2-ú [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003830.
Attribution
Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Joshua Jeffers, 2018-19, 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/Q003830/..
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/Q003830/.
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