Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 258
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1) For the god Enlil, king of the gods, lord of heaven and netherworld, prince [...], one who renders decisions, who[se order] cannot be changed, foremost of the Igīgū gods, hero of the Anunnakū gods, who ru[les ...], one who holds the lead-rope of every(one), one who makes [opposing forces] agr[ee], lord of the lands, wisest of the gods, one who dwells in Ekur which is inside [Nippur, (the great lord), his lord]: (6) Ash[ur]b[ani]p[al, great king], strong [kin]g, king of the wor[ld, king of Assyria, ... king who has no] equal [in all] the lands; [son of Esarhaddon, great king], strong…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na dEN.LÍL LUGAL DINGIR.DINGIR ⸢EN⸣ AN-e ù KI-tim NUN x [...] / pa-ri-is pu-ru-us-su-ú šá la in-nin-nu-⸢ú⸣ [qí-bit-su?] / a-šá-red dí-gì-gì ma-am-lu₄ da-nun-na-ki mu-ma-[ʾe-er ...] / ta-mi-iḫ ṣer-ret gi-im-ri sa-ni-[iq mit-ḫur-ti?] / EN KUR.KUR IGI.GÁL DINGIR.MEŠ a-šib é-kur šá qé-⸢reb⸣ [NIBRU.KI (EN GAL-i) EN-šú] / AN.⸢ŠÁR-DÙ-IBILA⸣ [LUGAL GAL] ⸢LUGAL⸣ dan-nu LUGAL ⸢kiš⸣-[šat LUGAL KUR…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q008347.
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/Q008347/..
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/Q008347/.
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