Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 159
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē who resides in the House of Succession that is insi]de Nineveh, the great lady, my lady — (2) [I, Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of] Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), [... Šarra]t-Kidmuri, Ištar of Arbela, [... t]o be king of the four quarters (of the world): (5b) [...] an excellent throne [... the se]at of the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, his lady, [...] ... of Bēlet-parṣē [... th]at excellent [throne ...] I decorated it and (10) [... cast with] shiny [zaḫa]lû-metal [...]. I established [the ... of] her great [divinit]y [... may] her heart…
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/Q007567/
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Transliteration
[ana? dGAŠAN-GARZA? a-ši-bat? É? UŠ-u-ti? šá? qé]-⸢reb⸣ NINA.KI GAŠAN ⸢GAL⸣-tú GAŠAN-ia / [a-na-ku mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL] KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-⸢tim⸣ / [... dšar]-⸢rat⸣-kid-mu-ri ⸢d⸣15 ša URU.⸢LÍMMU⸣-DINGIR / [... a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL-u-ti kib-rat LÍMMU-tim / [...] x GIŠ.GU.ZA a-rat-⸢te⸣-e / [... mu]-šab dGAŠAN-⸢GARZA GAŠAN⸣-šú / [...] x KI ša dGAŠAN-⸢GARZA⸣ / [... GIŠ.GU.ZA]…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007567.
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/Q007567/..
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/Q007567/.
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