Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 264
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] ... [...] pure [food offer]ings, anything ... set out before you. (2') [... m]e, Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, the servant (who is) the favorite of your heart, [...] ... (and) the just shepherdship that you bestow at your command, [...] the preservation of (my) life ... [...] a [b]right spirit ... Grant ... as a gift, ... come to my aid and always stand in for me, kill m[y] enemy, (and) make the foundation of my royal throne as secure as a mountain for eternity. (r 5b) When this ceremonial wagon becomes dilapidated and old, may one of the kings, [my] descendants, restore its…
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/Q008353/
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Transliteration
[...] (traces) [x x] x x ⸢TAR ŠÚ BAD⸣ / [x x (x) ma-ka]-⸢le⸣-e KÙ.MEŠ mim?-ma? x-⸢sú?⸣ [x] DU? ma-ḫar?-ka kun?-nu? / [x x (x) ia-a]-⸢ti⸣ mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A* MAN KUR aš-šur.⸢KI⸣ ARAD mi-gir lìb-bi-ki / [...] x-tim re-ʾu-ú-⸢ti⸣ mi-šar šá taš-ru-ki* ina ⸢qí⸣-bi-ti-⸢ki⸣1 / [...]-⸢le⸣ x ⸢TI.LA⸣ ZI-tim x x x x x [x] / [...] ⸢na⸣-mar ka-bat-ti x (x) x x TI x x x x / [x] x x x DU a-na ši-rik-ti šur-⸢ki⸣ ŠAR?…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q008353.
Attribution
Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Joshua Jeffers, 2020-22, for the NEH-funded RINAP Project at the University of Pennsylvania. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q008353/..
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/Q008353/.
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