Ashurbanipal 240

~655 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q008328

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 5

High confidence

(1') [... yea]rly [...] as [...] Urtaku, the king (5´) [...] ... [...] he threw down [...] at his feet [... Um]manigaš, his brother, in [...] ...

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

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Why it matters

Names Urtaku and Ummanigaš — the Elamite king and his brother whose rivalry Assyria exploited — placing this inscription among the direct royal accounts of Ashurbanipal's Elamite campaigns.

Transliteration

[...] x / [... šat?]-⸢ti?⸣-šam?-ma / [...] x a-ki-i / [... m]ur-ta*-gi LUGAL1 / [...] x ḪA RA ZA AN NU / [...] x ina GÌR.II-šú it-ta-suk / [... mum]-⸢man⸣-ni-ga-áš ŠEŠ-šú i-na / [...] x IG ⸢TUR?⸣ x

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Ashurbanipal or a late Sargonid successor, edited by Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers (RINAP 5, 2018–). ORACC text Q008328.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P239193). 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/Q008328/.

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