Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 209
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [For the goddess Ni]ngal, who makes life pleasant, goddess worthy of pra[ise], mother of the gods, the hero[ic one, the] gracious [wil]d cow, who(se) face is ra[diant, who(se)] featu[res] always shine brightly [l]ike daylight, (5) wi[f]e of the divine light (Sîn) — foremost lord, resplendent one, light of the distan[t] heavens — who bore the god Šamaš — the one who lights up the four quarters (of the world), who(se) judgement and decision are final ... — who intercedes for the light of the gods, her beloved, the god S[în], who gives counsel (and) says favorable thing(s) to the god Šamaš,…
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/Q007617/
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Transliteration
[a-na d]⸢nin⸣-gal DÙG-bát TI i-lat ta-na-⸢da⸣-[a-ti] / [(x x)] um-mi DINGIR.MEŠ qa-⸢rit⸣-[ti]1 / [ri]-⸢im⸣-tum da-mì-iq-tum šá bu-un-ni ⸢nam⸣-[ru] / [šá] ⸢GIM⸣ u₄-me it-tan-bi-ṭu zi-⸢mu⸣2 / ⸢ḫi-rat⸣ dŠEŠ.KI-ri EN a-šá-re-di šu-pu-u ZÁLAG AN-e né-su-u-⸢ti⸣ / a-lid-da-at dUTU-ši ZÁLAG kib-ra-a-ti šá šip-ṭu u EŠ.BAR gúm-mu-ru ŠÚ UR [x]3 / ṣa-bi-ta-at ab-bu-ti a-na na-an-⸢nar⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007617.
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/Q007617/..
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/Q007617/.
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