Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 206
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... of the [t]hrone, the father who engend[ered me, ...] you [en]trusted me with [...]. (8) [I, Ashurbanipal, great king], strong [k]ing, k[ing of the wor]ld, king of Assyria; [son of Esarhaddon, (king of Assyria,) king of the land of] Sumer and Akkad; (10) [grandson of Sennacherib, great king], strong [k]ing, king of the world, king of Assyria; [had a ... of mus]ukkannu-[wood], a durable wood, with silver mountings [made ... of] her great [divinity and] I set (it) up before her. (13) [May the goddess Ištar ...] look upon [... with pleasure] and may (it) be…
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/Q007614/
Why it matters
Dedicates a musukkannu-wood object with silver mountings before Ištar, documenting Ashurbanipal's material patronage of her cult and the royal titulary linking Assyrian kingship to Sumer and Akkad.
Transliteration
[...]-e / [...]-šú / [...] / [...] x x [...] / [...] x ⸢RA⸣ x [...] / [...] x x x ⸢GIŠ.GU⸣.ZA AD ⸢ba-ni⸣-[ia] / [...]-tim tu-⸢mal⸣-la-a ŠU.II-u-a / [a-na-ku mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A LUGAL GAL-ú] ⸢LUGAL dan⸣-nu ⸢LUGAL ŠÚ⸣ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI / [DUMU? mAN.ŠÁR-PAP-AŠ (LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI) LUGAL KUR] EME.GI₇ ⸢ù⸣ URI.KI1 / [DUMU? DUMU? md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU LUGAL GAL-ú] ⸢LUGAL⸣ dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007614.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P451991). 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/Q007614/.
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