Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 033
Written in modern English
Ummanigaš was a fugitive who had thrown himself at Ashurbanipal's feet. At Ashurbanipal's order, given during a celebration, one of his eunuchs escorted Ummanigaš into the land of Madaktu and the city of Susa and seated him on the throne of Teumman — the king Ashurbanipal had defeated.
A modern paraphrase of the literal translation — same content, contemporary voice.
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1) The fugitive [U]mmanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš II), a servant who had grasped my feet. When I gave the command (lit. “at the working of my mouth”) in (the midst of) celebration, a eunuch of mine whom [I had] sent (with him) ushered (him) in[to] the land Madaktu and the city Susa and placed him on the throne of Teu[mman, whom] I [had def]eated.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[m]⸢um-man-i-gaš⸣ mun-nab-tú ARAD ⸢šá iṣ⸣-ba-tú GÌR.II-ía / ina ⸢e⸣-peš pi-ia ina ḪÚL.MEŠ qé-⸢reb⸣ KUR.ma-dak-te / u URU.⸢šu⸣-šá-an LÚ.šu-ut ⸢SAG-ia⸣ šá [áš]-pu-ru / ú-⸢še⸣-rib-⸢ma ú⸣-še-šib-šú / ina GIŠ.GU.⸢ZA⸣ mte-⸢um⸣-[man šá ik]-⸢šu-da⸣ ŠU.II-a-a
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q003732.
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/Q003732/..
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/Q003732/.
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