Ashurbanipal 1024

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q009292

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 5

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(o 1) [For the goddess Zarpanītu, ...] ... of the goddesses, the heroic o[ne of the gods ..., the one who] is endowed with [sexual cha]rm (and) who bears the awe-inspir[ing radiance, ..., who pu]rifies all the lord[s ..., for]emost of the earth, whose pre[cious] cultic rites [are ..., (5) ... the pr]aise of all [...] ... deliberation and counsel, the daug[hter of ...] that was given to her (lit: “him”), the totality (of) [...]; (o 8) [...] exalted [lady], goddess of pleasure who [...] to/for [...] — the holy shrine — [... (10) ... who does] not [... the de]cision of the gods Anu, Enlil, and…

Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[a-na dzar-pa-ni-tum ...] x-ti i-lá-a-ti qá-rit-⸢ti⸣ [DINGIR.MEŠ? ...] / [... ku-uz]-⸢ba⸣ za-aʾ-na-at na-šat ⸢me-lam⸣-[me ...] / [... mul]-li-la-at nap-ḫar EN.[MEŠ? ...] / [... a-šá]-re-da-at KI-⸢tim⸣ šá mì-⸢su⸣-šá ⸢šu-qu⸣-[ru-(u)-tu? ...] / [... ta]-⸢na⸣-da-a-ti šá gi-⸢mir⸣ [...] / [...] x-ḪAR ši-tul-ti u mil-ki DUMU.[MUNUS ...] / [...] šá na-ad-nu-šú kiš-šá-tu x [...] / [...] ṣir-tu i-lat…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q009292.

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/Q009292/..
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/Q009292/.

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