Ashurbanipal 140

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q007548

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 5

High confidence

(1') [...] and statues of the king(s) [...] wagons, hors<e>s, m[ules ...] from the city Susa [...] my [lords], who had encour[aged me, ...] ... [...]

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

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Why it matters

Fragmentary Sargonid royal inscription recording spoils — statues, wagons, horses, mules — taken from Susa, likely part of Ashurbanipal's 647 BCE sack of the Elamite capital.

Transliteration

[...] ⸢ù ALAM⸣.MEŠ LUGAL x [...] / [... GIŠ].ṣu-um-bi ANŠE.KUR.<RA>.MEŠ ANŠE.⸢KUNGA⸣.[MEŠ ...] / [...] x ul-tu qé-reb URU.šu-⸢šá-an⸣ [...] / [... EN.MEŠ]-⸢ia⸣ ša ú-tak-⸢kil⸣-[u-in-ni ...] / [...] x x x [...]

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007548.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P452459). source
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/Q007548/.

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