Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 157
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [... the daughter of the god] Sîn, the female warrior, [...] her favorite [broth]er, [...] the king who reveres her, [...] king of Assyria, [... Sennach]erib, king of Assyria — (6) [...] I conquered their kings [a]bove and below. [...] I fought [with] his numerous troops (and) [brought about] his defeat. [...] I overthrew his throne (and) scattered his forces. [...] three kings who had exercised dominion over the land Elam after one another, (10) [...] they fled [from my m]ighty [...] and grasped the feet of h[is] royal majesty. [...] of his kingship was not pleasing to your exa[lted]…
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/Q007565/
Why it matters
Chronicles Ashurbanipal's successive defeats of three Elamite kings, placing Elam's serial dynastic collapses within the framework of Ištar's divine patronage of Assyrian military power.
Transliteration
[... DUMU.MUNUS d]⸢30⸣ qa-rit-tu / [...] ⸢ŠEŠ⸣ ta-li-mì-šá / [...] ⸢LUGAL⸣ pa-liḫ-i-šá / [...] ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI / [... md30-PAP.MEŠ]-⸢SU LUGAL⸣ KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI / [... e]-⸢liš⸣ u šap-liš ak-šú-da LUGAL.MEŠ-šú-un / [... it-ti] ⸢ERIM⸣.ḪI.⸢A⸣-šú ma-aʾ-du am-ḫa-ṣa BAD₅.BAD₅-šú / [...] x x ⸢GIŠ.GU⸣.ZA-šú ás-ki-pa ú-sap-pi-ḫa el-lat-su / [...] x 3 LUGAL.MEŠ šá EGIR a-⸢ḫa⸣-meš e-pu-šú be-lut…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007565.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P394562). 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/Q007565/.
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