Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 2006
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For the goddess Ningal, exalted lady, queen of the goddesses, (most) valiant of the great gods: (4) In order to ensure the good health of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, strong king, (and) king of the world, his lord, Sîn-balāssu-iqbi, son of Ningal-iddin, governor of Ur, Eridu and the Gurasimmu (tribe), (10) opened up (its) emplacement, built (the well named) Puḫilituma, and established (it) for all time. He made inexhaustible spring water appear in it. (14) With regard to any (future) ruler who (re)opens this well, may his days be long (and) his offspring extensive!
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/Q003845/
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Transliteration
a-na dnin-gal GAŠAN ṣir-ti / šar-rat i-la-a-ti qa-rit-ti1 / DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ / ana TIN ZI.MEŠ šá AN.ŠÁR-DÙ-IBILA / LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL kiš-šat / be-lí-šú md30-TIN-su-iq-bi / DUMU mdnin-gal-MU / LÚ.GÌR.NÍTA ÚRI.KI / eridu.KI u LÚ.gu-ra-sim-mu / áš-ri ip-te-e-ma pú-ḫi-li-tùm-ma / ib-ni-ma ú-kin aḫ-ra-taš / A.MEŠ nag-bi da-ru-ti / ú-šab-ra-a qé-reb-šú2 / šá NUN pe-tu-ú PÚ šu-a-ti / li-ri-ku u₄-mu-šú / liš-ta-an-dil NUNUZ-šú
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003845.
Attribution
Image: Based on Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC) (RIMB 2; Toronto, 1995). Digitized, lemmatized, and updated by Alexa Bartelmus, 2015-16, for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003845/..
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/Q003845/.
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