Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 254
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) I, Ashurbanipal, great [kin]g, strong 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 by the command of the gods Aššur, Šamaš, (5) and Marduk rules from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea and who made all rulers bow down at his feet, [who provi]des for Esagil, the palace of the gods — [who]se [doorbo]lt I made glisten like the stars (lit. “writing”) of the firmament — who repaired the damaged parts (10) of all their sanctuaries, (who) established (my) protection over all cult centers, the one who[se] deeds are…
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/Q008343/
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Transliteration
a-na-ku ⸢AN⸣.ŠÁR-DÙ-A / ⸢MAN⸣ GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur / ⸢MAN⸣ kib-rat LÍMMU-ti LUGAL LUGAL.MEŠ / ⸢NUN⸣ la šá-na-an šá ina a-mat AN.ŠÁR d⸢UTU⸣ / ⸢ù⸣ dAMAR.UTU ul-tu tam-tim e-⸢liti⸣ / ⸢a⸣-di [(x)] tam-tim šap-liti i-be-⸢lu-ma⸣ / ⸢gi⸣-mir ma-liki ú-šak-niš še-pu-uš-⸢šú⸣ / [za]-⸢nin⸣ é-sag-íl É.GAL DINGIR.MEŠ / [šá ki]-ma ši-ṭir bu-ru-mu ú-nam-mir / ⸢SI.GAR⸣-šú ù šá eš-re-e-ti…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q008343.
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/Q008343/..
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/Q008343/.
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