Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 162
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [I ripped out the tongue(s ...)] of Na[bû-uṣalli, a city overseer of the land Gambulu, (and)] fla[yed him/(them)]. (3') With [the decapitated head of Teumman, the king of the land Elam, I took] the road to the city [Arbela in (the midst of) celebration]. (5') I sent Tammarītu [...] with him [...] the people of the city Ḫidal[u ...]. (8') Simburu, the heral[d of the land Elam, heard about the advance of my troops and] became frightened at the mention of my name. [He] then [came] b[efore my messenger and kissed my feet]. (10') [Fear of my royal majesty] covered Umbakidinu, the [herald of…
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/Q007570/
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Transliteration
⸢šá mdMUATI⸣-[ú-ṣal-li LÚ.šá? UGU? URU? KUR.gam-bu-li? (...) áš-lu-up]1 / áš-ḫu-[ṭa KUŠ-šú-(un)] / it-ti [ni-kis SAG.DU mte-um-man MAN KUR.ELAM.MA.KI]2 / KASKAL URU.[LÍMMU-DINGIR aṣ-bat ina ḪÚL.MEŠ] / mtam-ma-ri-⸢tú⸣ [...] / it-ti-šú áš-⸢pur⸣ [...] / UN.MEŠ URU.ḫi-⸢da-lu⸣ [...] / msi-im-bu-ru LÚ.⸢NÍMGIR⸣ [ša KUR.ELAM.MA.KI ma-lak ERIM.ḪI.A-ia iš-me-ma] / zi-⸢kir⸣ MU-ía ip-pal-làḫ-⸢ma ina⸣ [IGI…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007570.
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/Q007570/..
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/Q007570/.
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