Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 235
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] ... [...] I brought about [their] defea[t ...] I devasta[ted the cit]y Susa [... the goddesses Nanāya, Uṣur-amāssa, (and) A]rkayītu (Urkayītu), who f[rom ... (5´) ... I made (them) ent]er Eanna in [... who cuts d]own my enemies [...] ... [...]
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/Q008323/
Why it matters
Records Ashurbanipal's sack of Susa and the return of the goddess Nanāya to Eanna after her long Elamite 'captivity' — linking military conquest to the restoration of Babylonian cult.
Transliteration
[...] x x x x [...] / [...]-ú áš-ku-na taḫ-⸢ta⸣-[šú-un ...] / [...] ⸢URU⸣.šu-šá-an ú-šaḫ-⸢rib⸣ [...] / [... dna-na-a dÙRU-INIM-sa d]⸢ar⸣-ka-a-a-i-tu šá ⸢ul⸣-[tu ...] / [... ú-še]-⸢ri⸣-ba é-an-na ina [...] / [... mu-šam-qí?]-⸢ta⸣-at LÚ.KÚR.MEŠ-ia [...] / [...] x x x x [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q008323.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P452412). 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/Q008323/.
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