Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 1027
Translation · reference
High confidence(o 1') [...] ... [...], the priest, the true vice-regent, who provides for Ez[ida, ...], the capable ruler who comprehends the wisdom of the god Nabû, [...]; (to) who(m) the great gods [...] to dire[ct ..., (...)], (5´) and to restore the work of temple[(s), ...], a just scepter (and) a true staff [for ...]; (o 7') (for whom) the gods Aššur, Bel (Marduk), and Nabû [...] h[is] aid; the one who carries out in full the instruction(s) of (the god) Aššur and the god Mar[duk ...], the one who (re)-established your privileged status, the one who [...]; (10´) who, at the name of the god Nabû, his…
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/Q009295/
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Transliteration
[...] x x x x x [...] / ⸢SANGA ÉNSI⸣ ke-e-nu e-pir é-⸢zi⸣-[da ...] / mal-ku le-ʾu-u a-ḫi-iz né-me-eq dAG x [...] / ša DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ a-na šu-te-⸢šur⸣ [...] / ù a-na ud-du-uš ši-pir É.KUR [...] / GIŠ.GIDRU i-šìr-tú GIŠ.ŠIBIR ke-e-nu x [...] / AN.ŠÁR dEN dMUATI re-ṣu-us-⸢su⸣ [...] / mu-šal-lim-mu ⸢na-aš⸣-par-ti AN.ŠÁR u dAMAR.[UTU ...] / ka-ṣir ki-din-nu-ti-ku-nu mu-bal-[...] / ⸢šá⸣ ana MU…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q009295.
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/Q009295/..
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/Q009295/.
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