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RINAP 5/2, Ashurbanipal 231 ex. 001 (P396398)
Official or display, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RINAP 5/2, Ashurbanipal 231 ex. 001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396398 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Official or display |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| reverse 7' | ... its gates: on the eighth day he will die. |
| obverse 9' | ... of Sippar, the sanctuaries... |
| reverse 9' | ... the satrap(?) of the sheep, the satrap(?) |
| reverse 10' | ... or a courtyard... |
| reverse 6' | ... a aur reed, a... tree, a rikin tree |
| reverse 5' | ... he brought down his..., his... beams... |
| reverse 4' | ... in a favorable month with |
| obverse 4' | ...... he brought about his defeat, the seat of his city he was seized, but he did not capture... |
| obverse 3' | ...... he brought down... the city. The location of the Scorpion in the heavens was seized and... |
| obverse 6' | ... whose strength, the furious bow, the furious..., unceasing |
| obverse 2' | ... Babylon, the shepherd, established the border of the land, which by his own power |
| obverse 8' | ... inside it I smote and the heart of the people... |
| reverse 11' | ... a fate not befitting the great gods... |
| reverse 12' | ...... they did, the rage...... |
| reverse 3' | ... shrine of all the lands...... |
| reverse 2' | ... to ama-umu-ukn, their governor, who reveres Nabû and |
| obverse 10' | ... he... the Gutians...... |
| obverse 5' | ... in place of oxen and sheep... lions in a chariot |
| obverse 7' | ... I killed and destroyed all of the me |
| reverse 8' | ... the dwelling of tailtu I brought. When ama the meal |
| reverse 14' | ... ama in the word |
| reverse 13' | ... [...]... [...] |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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