Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 194
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(i 1) You know, O Aššur, the Enlil of the gods, from the past into the future, that Uaiteʾ (Iautaʾ), son of Hazael, the king of the land of the Arabs, in the time of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, the servant, the creation of your hands, (i 5) had turned hostile and had cast off the yoke of his (Esarhaddon’s) lordship. Through your great support (and) your exalted strength, Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, the father who had engendered me, mustered his army and dispatched (them) against him. In a pitched battle, he brought about his defeat (and) they (the army) carried off his gods. (i 10) Uaiteʾ…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Why it matters
Records Esarhaddon's campaign against Uaiteʾ of the Arabs and the capture of his gods — a rare first-person Assyrian account of punitive action against a vassal who 'cast off the yoke,' framed as divine mandate from Aššur.
Transliteration
at-ta ti-i-de AN.ŠÁR dEN.LÍL DINGIR.MEŠ / ul-tu ⸢maḫ⸣-ra-a-ti a-di ar-ka-a-ti / ki-i mú-a-a-te-eʾ DUMU mḫa-za-DINGIR LUGAL KUR.a-ri-bi / ina LAL-ṣi mAN.ŠÁR-PAP-AŠ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI re-e-šú bi-nu-ut ŠU.II-ka / ik-ki-ru-ma iṣ-lu-u <GIŠ>.ŠUDUN EN-ti-šú / ina tukul-ti-ka GAL-ti e-mu-qi-ka ṣi-ra-a-ti / mAN.ŠÁR-PAP-AŠ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI AD DÙ-ia / ERIM.ḪI.A-šú id-ke-e-ma ú-ma-ʾe-er EDIN-uš-šú / ina MÈ…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007602.
Attribution
Image: BM 098591 (+) VAT 05600 (British Museum, London, UK; Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P394682). 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/Q007602/.
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