Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 107
Translation · reference
High confidence(i' 1') (No translation possible) (i' 8') [... I] conquered [...] I burned (ii' 1') [On account of these] w[ords that he had slanderously uttered, (the god) A]ššur and [the goddess Ištar attacked him and (then)] Tammarīt[u, his brothers, his family, (and) the seed of his father’s house], together with eighty-f[ive nobles who march at his side, (ii´ 5´) fled to me] from [Indabibi, and (then)] crawled nake[d on their bellies and came to Nineveh]. (ii' 8') Tammarītu [kissed] the feet [of my royal majesty and swept] the ground [with his beard. (ii´ 10´) He took hold of] the platform of [my…
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/Q003806/
Why it matters
Tammarītu's groveling submission at Nineveh — crawling naked, kissing royal feet, sweeping the ground with his beard — documents the ritual humiliation Assyria imposed on deposed Elamite claimants after the civil war of the 650s BCE.
Transliteration
[...] x / [...] x / [...]-šú / [...] x KI / [...] x / [...]-⸢ta?⸣ / [...]-u-ti / [...] ⸢ak⸣-šu-ud / [... aq]-⸢mu⸣ / [UGU] ⸢a⸣-[ma-a-ti an-na-a-te šá il-zi-nu] / ⸢AN⸣.ŠÁR u [d15 e-ri-ḫu-šú-ma] / ⸢m⸣tam-ma-ri-⸢tú⸣ [ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šú qin-nu-šú NUMUN É AD-šú] / it-ti ⸢85⸣ [NUN.MEŠ a-li-kut i-di-šú] / la-pa-an ⸢m⸣[in-da-bi-bi in-nab-tú-nim-ma] / mi-ra-⸢nu⸣-[uš-šú-un ina UGU ŠÀ.MEŠ-šú-nu] / ip-ši-lu-⸢nim⸣-[ma…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003806.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P426286). source
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/Q003806/.
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