Position in chronology
Ashurbanipal 239
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 5(1') [...] ... [... Ashurbanip]al, king of Assyria, the pio[us one, ...] your divine [...] chose and [... the king]s, his ancestors, [...; (5´) (...) so]n of Esarhaddon, king of [Assyria, ...; grandson of Sennac]her[ib, ...]
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 5 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Why it matters
Preserves Ashurbanipal's three-generation dynastic lineage — son of Esarhaddon, grandson of Sennacherib — a formulaic claim that anchored Sargonid legitimacy in royal inscriptions of the mid-seventh century BCE.
Transliteration
[...] x AN I BI x [...] / [... maš-šur-DÙ]-⸢A⸣ MAN KUR aš-šur mut-⸢nen⸣-[nu-u ...] / [...] DINGIR?-ti-ki ut-tu-ma x [...] / [... LUGAL].MEŠ-ni AD.MEŠ-šú x [...] / [...] x maš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [aš-šur ...] / [... md30]-⸢PAP?⸣.MEŠ-⸢SU?⸣ [...] / [...] x [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q008327.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P400822). 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/Q008327/.
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