Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 130
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') (No translation possible) (3') [...] to kill [...]. (4') [...] ... gold which ... [...]. (5') [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] powe[r], virility, (and) king[ship ...]. (r 1) Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, (my) hostile brother, who had plan[ned murder] against Assyria [...], saying: “I will come and destr[oy] those cities [...]. I will carry off Assyrians from (their) midst and [...].” (As for) Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, who had spoken (these) insolent word(s), [(the god) Aššur determined for him a cruel death; he consigned him] to a conflagration ... [(and) destroyed his life]. (r 6) (As for) the people,…
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/Q003829/
Why it matters
Transliteration
x x [...] / x x ⸢TI?⸣ x x [...] / [...] x ⸢da⸣-a-⸢ki⸣ x [...] / [...] x x KÙ.GI šá ⸢TA?⸣ x [...] / [...]-⸢re?⸣-e ú-x x ú x ⸢BUR?⸣ x x [...] / [...] x ma?-la? x x ep-⸢pu⸣-šú ḫa?-[...] / [...] x x x LAGAB RE E ŠI [...]1 / [...] dun-⸢nu zik?⸣-ru-ti ⸢LUGAL⸣-[ú-ti? ...] / mdGIŠ.NU₁₁-MU-GI.NA ŠEŠ nak-ri šá a-na KUR aš-šur ik-⸢pu⸣-[du né-er-tú ...] / um-ma al-la-kam-ma URU.MEŠ šá-a-tu-nu a*-nap-⸢pal?⸣…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003829.
Attribution
Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Joshua Jeffers, 2018-22, 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/Q003829/..
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/Q003829/.
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