Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 180
Translation · reference
High confidence(o? 1') [...]. (o? 2') I [capture]d [... who had perpet]rated sedition and rebellion. [I ...] them and, in order (obv.? 5´) [to show] the might of (the god) Aššur and the goddess Mullissu, I sat them on camels. ... (like) gnats, they were creating noise with the Assyrians, who were celebrating before me. (o? 8') I, Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria: They were parading b[efore me] Ammi-ladīn, the king of the land Qedar, whom I had cap[tured] with the support of (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar. Blank space for 2 lines (r? 1) I, Ashurbanipal, [king of Assyria], who by the command of the great…
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/Q007588/
Why it matters
Records Ashurbanipal's capture and public humiliation of Ammi-ladīn, king of Qedar, paraded on camels before the Assyrian court — direct epigraphic evidence of Assyrian military reach into the north Arabian steppe.
Transliteration
[...] x / [... e]-⸢piš⸣ si-ḫi u bar-ti / [... ik-šu]-⸢da⸣ ŠU.II-a-a / [...]-⸢šú-nu⸣-ti-⸢ma⸣ áš-šú da-na-an AN.ŠÁR u dNIN.LÍL / [kul-lu-mi?] EDIN ANŠE.A.AB.BA.MEŠ ú-še-šib-šú-nu-ti / x x ⸢baq⸣-qé ú-ḫa-am-ba-bu it-ti DUMU.MEŠ KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI1 / ša ina IGI-ia ip-pu-šu nin-gu-tú / a-na-ku mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A MAN KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI / mam-mu-la-di LUGAL KUR.qa-ad-ri / šá ina tukul-ti AN.ŠÁR u d15 ⸢ik⸣-[šu-da]2 /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007588.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P424948). 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/Q007588/.
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