Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 243
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1) Ashurbanipal, [great] king, [mighty king, king of the world], king of Assyria, king of the [four] quarters (of the world), [king of kings], ruler who has no rival, who rules from [the Upper Sea to the] Lower [Sea] and [who made] all [rulers bow down at his feet]; (5) son of Esarhaddon, [great] king, [(mighty king), (king of the world), (king of Assyria), (governor of Babylon)], king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; [grand]son of [Sennacherib, (great king), mighty king], king of the world, king of Assyria, I — (7b) [I completed the work on Esagil] which (my) father who had engendered me had…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
mAN.ŠÁR-ba-a-ni-IBILA LUGAL ⸢GAL⸣ [LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÁR] / LUGAL KUR aš-šur LUGAL kib-ra-a-⸢ti⸣ [LÍMMU-ti LUGAL LUGAL.MEŠ] / NUN la šá-na-an šá ul-⸢tu⸣ [tam-tim e-liti a-di tam-tim] / šap-liti i-be-lu-ma gi-[mir ma-li-ki ú-šak-niš še-pu-uš-šú] / DUMU mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA LUGAL ⸢GAL⸣ [(LUGAL dan-nu) (LUGAL ŠÁR) (LUGAL KUR aš-šur)] / LUGAL KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI DUMU [DUMU md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU LUGAL…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q008331.
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/Q008331/..
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/Q008331/.
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