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Ashurbanipal 018 (Q003717)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationAshurbanipal 018
IDQ003717
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/rinap5 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse Column i [0:8] i' 1'1'–i' 8'8'[...] ... [...] Teumman [...] ... a king who [...] ... [...] ... [...] Nabû [...] ... [...]
Obverse Column ii [0:6] ii' 1'1'–ii' 6'6'[...] ... [...] and [...] ... [...“I will co]me and [...].”
Obverse Column ii [6:21] ii' 7'7'–ii' 21'21'[... Ashur]banipal, the king of [Assyria, ...] the Elam[ite ... Indadbib]i, h[is] servant, [...] (iiˊ 10ˊ) ... [...] Ind[abibi ... the land] Elam [... Indabi]bi, who [...] on [...] ... [... (iiˊ 15ˊ) insol]ent messa[ges ...] the deities [Aššur], Mullissu, [... he opened u]p [his hands to me] (and) made an appe[al ...] ... [...] my [troop]s [...] ... [...]

Transliteration (ATF)

From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
i'
1'[...] x ⸢AN⸣ E x [...]
2'[... {m]}te-um-man [...]
3'[...] x-tim LUGAL ša₂ x [...]
4'[...] x (x) x ⸢NA E⸣ [...]
5'[...] x [...]
6'[...] [...]
7'[...] {⸢d}AG⸣ [...]
8'[...] [...]
ii'
1'[...] x [...]
2'[...] x (x) [...]
3'[...] DIN x [...]
4'[...] ⸢u₃⸣ [...]
5'[...] x x [...]
6'[... al-la]-kam-ma [...]
7'[... AN.ŠAR₂]-DU₃-A MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [AN.ŠAR₂{ki} ...]
8'[...] ⸢e-la-mu⸣-[u ...]
9'{[m}in-da-bi]-⸢bi⸣ ARAD-⸢su⸣ [...]
10'[...] UZ-⸢zu⸣-šu-⸢nu⸣-[ti ...]
11'[...] x {m}in-⸢da⸣-[bi-bi ...]
12'[... {kur]}ELAM.MA{⸢ki⸣} x [...]
13'{[m}in-da-bi]-bi ša UGU-[...]
14'[...]-pa-ra [...]
15'[šu-ut me]-⸢re⸣-ḫe-e-[ti ...]
16'[AN.ŠAR₂] {d}NIN.LIL₂ {⸢d⸣}[...]
17'[ip-ta]-a u₂-ṣal-⸢la⸣-[a ...]
18'[...]-šu₂-u-⸢ni⸣ [...]
19'[... ERIM].ḪI.A-⸢ia⸣ [...]
20'[...] TI x [...]
21'[...] ⸢BI⸣ [...]

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