Ashurbanipal 1029

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q009297

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 5

High confidence

(o 1) [For the god Nergal, perfect warrior, mightiest of the gods, foremost hero, powerful lord, (...)] ..., [king of battle, lord of strength and power, lord of the Deluge that brings abo]ut devas[tation, the exalted son of the god Enlil, powerful one among the gods, his brothers, child of the goddess Kutuša]r (Mullissu), the gr[eat] queen, [who marches at the side of the king, his favorite, and kills his foes, (who) cuts d]own the en[emy, (5) (who) spares the ruler who reveres him from plague, (who) grant]s him mighty vic[tor]ie[s], who resides in Emeslam, the holy shrine that is inside…

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

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Transliteration

[a-na dU.GUR qar-ra-du gít-ma-lum dan-dan-nu DINGIR.MEŠ ma-am-lu a-šá-re-du EN ga?-áš-ru (...)] ṣi-⸢ra?⸣-[x (x)] / [LUGAL tam-ḫa-ri be-el a-ba-ri ù dun-ni be-el a-bu-bi šá]-⸢kin⸣ na-as?-[pan-ti?] / [DUMU dEN.LÍL ṣi-i-ru ga-áš-ru DINGIR.MEŠ ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šú bu-kúr dku-tu]-⸢šar⸣ šar-ra-tum ⸢GAL?⸣-[tum?] / [ša Á.II LUGAL mi?-gir?-i-šú il-lak-ú-ma i-na-ar-ru ga-re-e-šú ú-šam]-⸢qa⸣-tu₄ a-[a-bi] / [ina…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q009297.

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/Q009297/..
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/Q009297/.

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