Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 128
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [... insid]e the land Elam [... s]aying: “Send me [...” ... (the city Bīt-Imbî)] like a great wall within the ter[ritory of ...] (5´) because [no]body [...] the territory of the land El[am ...] Undasu, who does not have sen[se or insight, ...] did not conceive with [his] mind [...] I brought a[bout] the defeat of Teumman, the king of the land Elam [...] who, for a second time, to the land Elam ... [...]
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/Q003827/
Why it matters
Records Ashurbanipal's claim to have defeated Teumman of Elam and seized Bīt-Imbî, situating this Assyrian-Elamite war within the king's own ideological framing of divinely sanctioned conquest.
Transliteration
[...] ⸢SAG⸣ [...] / [qé]-⸢reb⸣ KUR.ELAM.MA.⸢KI⸣ [...] / ⸢um⸣-ma šup-ra-an-ni [...]1 / ki-ma BÀD GAL-e šá ⸢mi⸣-[ṣir ...] / áš-šú ma-am-man mi-ṣir KUR.⸢ELAM⸣.[MA.KI ...] / mun-⸢da⸣-su la ra-áš ṭè-⸢e⸣-[me ù mil-ki ...] / ul iḫ-su-us it-ti ⸢lìb-bi⸣-[šú? ...] / BAD₅.BAD₅ mte-um-man LUGAL KUR.ELAM.MA.KI áš-⸢kun?⸣ [...] / ša šá-ni-⸢a?-nu? a-na KUR.ELAM⸣ (traces) [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003827.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P425042). 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/Q003827/.
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