Ashurbanipal 257

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q008346

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 5

High confidence

(1) For the god Nergal, mightiest of the gods, most overpowering of the gods, the supreme, perfect, (and) noble sovereign of his brother(s), the one who dwells in (the temple) Ešaḫula, the lord of Sirara, his lord: (3b) Ashurbanipal, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; son of Esarhaddon, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, (5) king of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; grandson of Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, (who was) also king of Assyria — (7b) In order to ensure his good health, he enlarged the courtyard of (the temple) Ešaḫula with baked bricks from a (ritually) pure kiln and made its processional way shine like daylight.

Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

a-na dU.GUR dan-dan-nu* DINGIR.MEŠ kaš-kaš DINGIR.MEŠ šur-bu-ú gít-ma-la / mut-tal-la e-tel-lu ŠEŠ-šú a-šib é-šà-ḫúl*-la EN si-ra-ra.KI / EN-šú mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-IBILA MAN GAL MAN dan-nu* MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI / DUMU mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA MAN GAL MAN dan-nu* MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI / MAN TIN.TIR.KI MAN KUR šu-me-ri ù URI.KI / DUMU DUMU md30-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-SU MAN GAL MAN dan-nu* MAN ŠÚ / MAN KUR aš-šur.KI-ma ana TIN ZI.MEŠ-šú / i-na a-gur-ru UDUN KÙ*-tim ki-sal-li / é-šà-ḫúl*-la ú-ra-bi-i-ma / tal-lak-ta-šú ki-ma u₄-me ú-nam-mir

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q008346.

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/Q008346/..
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/Q008346/.

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