Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 032
Written in modern English
At the city of Tīl-Tūba, Ashurbanipal — great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria — shattered the army of Teumman, king of Elam, killing his warriors in countless numbers and leaving their bodies where they fell.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1) The defeat of the troops of Teumman, the king of [the land Elam], which Ashurbanipal, [great king, strong king], king of the world, king of Assyria, [had brought about] (by inflicting) countless (losses) at (the city) Tīl-Tūba, (and during which) he had cast down the corpses of [his (Teumman’s)] w[arriors].
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
BAD₅.BAD₅ ERIM.ḪI.A.MEŠ mte-um-man LUGAL [KUR.ELAM.MA.KI] / ša qé-reb DU₆-URU.tu-ú-bu mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A [MAN GAL MAN dan-nu] / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI ina la mì-i-ni [iš-ku-nu?] / id-du-⸢ú ADDA⸣.MEŠ ⸢qu⸣-[ra-di-šú]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003731.
Attribution
Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-18. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2015–16, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based 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/Q003731/..
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/Q003731/.
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