Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 132
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [Afterwards, Tammarītu, who sat on the throne of the land Elam after Ummanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš II)] (and) who did not inquire about the well-being of [my] royal majes[ty], came [to the aid of Šamaš-šu]ma-ukīn — (my) unfaithful brother — and to fight with [my] tro[ops. As a result of the supplications that] I had addres[sed to (the god) Aš]šur and the goddess Ištar, my gods, [Indabibi, a servant] of his, rebelled against him and sat o[n his throne]. (6') [Tammarītu], his [broth]ers, his family, the seed of his father’s house, (and) the nobles who marc[h at his side], fled to me [from…
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/Q007540/
Why it matters
Records Tammarītu's flight to the Assyrian court after his own servant Indabibi seized the Elamite throne — direct Assyrian testimony to the dynastic collapse that dismembered Elam in the 650s BCE.
Transliteration
[...] x x [...]1 / [ina GIŠ.GU.ZA KUR.ELAM.MA].⸢KI⸣ ša la iš-a-lu šul-mu LUGAL-⸢ú⸣-[ti-ia] / [a-na re-ṣu-ut mdGIŠ.NU₁₁]-⸢MU⸣-GI.NA ŠEŠ la ke-e-ni il-lik-am-ma a-na mit-ḫu-uṣ ⸢ERIM⸣.[ḪI.A-ia] / [ina su-up-pe-e šá AN].ŠÁR u d15 DINGIR.MEŠ-ia ú-sap-⸢pu⸣-[ú]2 / [min-da-bi-bi ARAD]-su EDIN-uš-šú ib-bal-kit-ma ú-šib ⸢ina⸣ [GIŠ.GU.ZA-šú] / [mtam-ma-ri-tú] ⸢ŠEŠ⸣.MEŠ-šú qin-nu-šú NUMUN É AD-šú NUN.MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007540.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P396478). 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/Q007540/.
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