Ashurbanipal 020 (Q003719)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003719 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/scores · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [0:13] i' 1'1'–i' 13'13' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse Column ii [0:9] ii' 1'1'–ii' 9'9' | [...] ... [... the statue of] Ḫallušu (Ḫallušu-Inšušinak I), who had dist[urbed ...], together with statues of [...] kings who had exercised dominion over the land Elam, with their substant[ial] booty, [I erected] in Nineveh, in a gate of my palace, for the admiration of futur[e] people. I destroyed (and) [demolished] tombs of the kings, their ancestors, (and) I took their bones to [Assyria]. |
| Obverse Column ii [9:15] ii' 10'10'–ii' 15'15' | (As for) the goddess Nanāya, who 1,635 year[s] (ago) became angry and (went to) live in a place not befit[ting her], as soon as the time had come (and) the fix[ed time] had arrived, they (the gods) commanded her journey (back) to Uruk (and) her (re)entry into [Eḫiliana]. The king [...] by the command of (the god) Aš[šur ...] |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| i' | ||
| 1' | [... e-pu]-⸢šu⸣-uš | |
| 2' | [... MUNUS].⸢ḪUL⸣ | |
| 3' | [...]-mu | |
| 4' | [...] x ŠA₂ | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢u₂⸣-ti | |
| 6' | [...] x-ti | |
| 7' | [...]-⸢ti⸣-ia | |
| 8' | [...]-⸢pal⸣-su-ma | |
| 9' | [...] x-ZA | |
| 10' | [...] x-šu | |
| 11' | [... a]-⸢ra⸣-mu | |
| 12' | [...] x | |
| 13' | [...] x | |
| ii' | ||
| 1' | [...] [...] | |
| 2' | [ALAM] {⸢m⸣}ḫa-lu-si mu-nar-[riṭ ...] | |
| 3' | a-di ALAM.MEŠ LUGAL.MEŠ [...] | |
| 4' | ša₂ e-pu-šu₂ be-lut {kur}⸢ELAM⸣.[MA{ki]} | |
| 5' | it-ti šal-la-ti-šu₂-nu ka-⸢bit⸣-[ti] | |
| 6' | a-na ta-mar-ti UN.MEŠ EGIR.[MEŠ] | |
| 7' | ina NINA{ki} ina KA₂ E₂.GAL-ia [ul-ziz] | |
| 8' | ki-maḫ-ḫi LUGAL.MEŠ AD.MEŠ-šu₂-nu ap-pul [aq-qur] | |
| 9' | GIR₃.PAD.DU.MEŠ-šu₂-nu al-qa-a a-na KUR [AN.ŠAR₂{ki]} | |
| 10' | {d}na-na-a ša₂ ul-tu GEŠ₂.U GEŠ₂.U 7 UŠ 15 MU.AN.⸢NA⸣.[MEŠ] | |
| 11' | ta-aš₂-bu-šu-ma tu-ši-bu a-šar la si-⸢ma⸣-[ti-ša₂] | |
| 12' | a-di u₄-mu im-lu-u₂ ik-šu-da a-⸢dan⸣-[nu] | |
| 13' | a-lak-ša₂ a-na UNUG{ki} ⸢e-reb-ša₂ a-na⸣ [e₂-ḫi-li-an-na] | |
| 14' | iq-bu-u₂ LUGAL x [...] | |
| 15' | ina qi₂-bit AN.[ŠAR₂ ...] | |
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