Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 1007
Written in modern English
The broken text describes a ruler who sent his troops to fight alongside the forces of the king of Assyria, with dealings involving Egypt and Kush. A message to the speaker promised that all of Babylonia would be delivered into his hand. But someone failed to remember the king's kindness, abandoned the shrines of the gods, and forgot what the king had done for him. The rest of the passage is too damaged to follow.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1') [...] ... [...] in ... [..., who] had sent his troops [to fight with (the troops of) ..., the k]ing of Assyria, [... Egy]pt and Kush [...] to me, the land of Sumer and Akkad, (5´) [saying: “... of Karduni]aš (Babylonia), all of it, we will deliver into your hand.” [...] (who) did not remember my kindness, [...], abandoned [the ...]s of the gods, and [...]. He forgot my ... and (10´) [...] ... [...]
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[...] ⸢E LI⸣ [...] / [...] ina ⸢da⸣-x [...] / [...] ⸢MAN⸣ KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI ERIM.ḪI.A-šú iš-pu-⸢ru⸣ / [... KUR.mu]-⸢ṣur⸣ u KUR.ku-ú-si / [...] x-u-ni KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI / [... KUR.kár-ddun]-⸢ía⸣-àš DÙ-šá nu-mal-la-a qa-tuk-ka / [...] la ḫa-sis MUN-ti / [...].⸢MEŠ⸣ ša DINGIR.MEŠ ú-maš-šir-ma / [...] x x-ia ⸢im⸣-ši-ma / [...] x SI x [x (x)]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003836.
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/Q003836/..
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/Q003836/.
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