Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 1002
Translation · reference
High confidence(o 1') (No translation possible) (o 3') The god Ninurta, ... [...], allowed [me] to achieve [my heart’s] desire [...] (and) he returned [...]. (o 7') The goddess Queen of Nineveh, the mercifu[l mot]her, came to my side and gladly made me sit on the throne of the father who had engendered me. (o 11') The goddess Lady of Arbela, the great lady, regularly sent me favorable message(s) concerning my exercising kingship. (r 3) The goddess Gula pacified those who were insolent to me and she made ... bow dow[n (to me)]. (r 5) The Sebetti, valiant gods, [...] the left [...] ... [...] (r 8) (No translation possible)
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/Q003831/
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Transliteration
[x] x x [...] / ⸢ú⸣-[x]-al-[...] / ⸢dnin⸣-urta ⸢AB ŠÚ?/ŠI?⸣ [...] / ⸢ṣu⸣-um-me-rat [lìb-bi-ia] / ⸢ú⸣-šak-ši-⸢da⸣ [...] / ú-ter-ra [...] / dšar-rat-NINA.KI ⸢AMA⸣ réme-ni-⸢tu?⸣ / Á.II-a-a it-tas-ḫar-ma / ṭa-biš tu-še-ši-ba-an-ni / ina GIŠ.GU.ZA AD ba-ni-⸢ia⸣ / dbe-let-URU.LÍMMU-DINGIR1 / be-el-tu GAL-⸢tum⸣ / šá e-peš LUGAL-ti-⸢ia⸣ / ú-sa-di-ra ši-pir SIG₅.MEŠ / dgu-la ak-ṣu-⸢ti⸣-ia / tu-ni?-iḫ-ma tu-šak-⸢niš⸣ [x] x x2 / dIMIN.BI DINGIR.⸢MEŠ qar-du⸣-[tum ...] / šu-me-⸢lu?⸣ x [...]3 / il-x [...] / ⸢ta?⸣ x [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003831.
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/Q003831/..
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/Q003831/.
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