Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 151
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [(the god) A]ššur [...] upon [...] rivers (and) floods [... a co]mmon (soldier) ... [...] who hostilities [...]. (6') Tammarītu, who [...] ... like [...] his army, like an entourage of [...] his judgment changed (and) his counsel ... [...] (10´) he spoke (with) his lips (and) was ble[ssing ...] “(The god) Aššur, your ally, your support, [...] your borders ... [...] fierce [...] ... [...].”
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/Q007559/
Why it matters
Names Tammarītu — an Elamite king restored and then deposed by Ashurbanipal — in a royal inscription that frames Assyrian military intervention as divine mandate from Aššur.
Transliteration
⸢AN?.ŠÁR⸣ [...] / UGU ⸢ID⸣ [...] / ÍD.MEŠ ⸢ILLU.MEŠ?⸣ [...] / [a]-⸢ḫur⸣-ru-u KI ME x [...] / ⸢šá ze⸣-ra-a-te [...] / mtam-mar-i-tu šá [...] / [x]-us-su-te GIM x [...] / ⸢um⸣-man-šú ki-ma li-me-et x [...] / iš-ni ṭè-en-šú mi-lik-šú iš-⸢te?⸣-[...] / šap-ti-šú i-ta-ma-a i-kar-[ra-ba ...] / AN.ŠÁR re-ṣu-⸢ka⸣ tuk-lat-⸢ka⸣ x [...] / i-ta-a-⸢ka⸣ x x [...] / ez-zu-ti x [...] / [x] x x [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007559.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P452177). 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/Q007559/.
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