Ashurbanipal 1030

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q009298

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 5

High confidence

(1) The god Aššur and the [grea]t gods [w]ho [sta]nd at the side of the king, their fav[or]ite, and [who] cut down [(all of)] his [en]emies: (4) [...], king of the world, [...], ... [...], (5) son of [..., ...]: (8b) The god [Aššur, the father of the go]ds, ... determined [a roya]l destiny as my lot [(while I was) in my mother’s wo]m[b (and) ...]; the god Enlil [nominated] me for ruling over the land and people; the gods Sîn and Šamaš discussed with each other favorable omens concerning the stability of my r[eign]; (and) the gods Nabû (and) Marduk granted me a broad mind (and) extensive…

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

Transliteration

daš-šur ù DINGIR.[MEŠ] ⸢GAL⸣.MEŠ1 / ⸢ša⸣ i-di LUGAL mi-[ig]-ri-šú-un [i]-⸢za⸣-zu-ma / [ú]-šam-⸢qa?⸣-tu [(kul-lat?) na]-ki-ri-⸢šú⸣ / [...] ⸢MAN?⸣ ŠÚ? [...] x x [...] x [x x]2 / ⸢DUMU?⸣ [...]3 / x [...] / [...]-nu / [...] x [...] d[aš-šur? AD?] ⸢DINGIR?⸣.MEŠ4 / x x x [ina?] ⸢lìb?-bi?⸣ [AMA-ia? ši-mat? LUGAL?]-ti / i-šim šim-ti [...] dEN.LÍL5 / a-na EN-ut KUR u UN.MEŠ [iz-kur?] ni-bit-ti / d30 dUTU…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q009298.

Attribution

Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Joshua Jeffers, 2018-19, 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/Q009298/..
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/Q009298/.

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