Ashurbanipal 223

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q007631

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 5

High confidence

Columns i and ii are not edited here iii 1´–35´ The inscription of Sennacherib and measurements and descriptions of Zarpanītu’s bed and Marduk’s throne are not edited here (iii 36') Wording (of the inscription) that was erased from the bed (and) the throne of the god Bēl (Marduk), which were deposited in the temple of (the god) Aššur, (and that of the inscription) written upon (them) in the name of Ashurbanipal. Simānu (III), the twenty-seventh day, eponymy of Awiānu (655) , th[ey were returned t]o Ba[byl]on [(...)]. (iv 1') [...] ... [...] ... [..., O l]ord, being furious (and) relenting,…

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

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Transliteration

da-ba-bu šá ina UGU GIŠ.NÁ šá ina UGU GIŠ.GU.ZA ša dEN / šá ina É AN.ŠÁR kar-rat-u-ni pa-áš-šu-ṭu-u-ni1 / MU šá mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A ina muḫ-ḫi šà-ṭir-u-ni / ITI.SIG₄ UD.⸢27⸣.KAM lim-mu ma-ú-ia-nu [a]-⸢na KÁ⸣.[DINGIR].⸢RA.KI⸣ / [(...)] ú-[ter-(ru)] / [...] x x [...] / [...] x I BAL ⸢LU?⸣ [...] / [...] ⸢be⸣-lum e-ze-zu nap-šú-⸢ru⸣ x [...] / [x (x)] ⸢ba⸣-nu-u šu-ud-du-u šu-šu-bu qa-tuk-⸢ka⸣ [ba-šu-u]2 /…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q007631.

Attribution

Image: Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Joshua Jeffers, 2018-22, 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/Q007631/..
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/Q007631/.

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