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Ashurbanipal 027 (Q003726)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 027
IDQ003726
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 [0:4] 11–44The head of Teum[man, the king of the land Elam], which a common soldier in my army [had cut off] in the midst of bat[tle]. They dispatched (it) quickly to As[syria] to (give me) the good ne[ws].

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)
1SAG.DU {m}te-um-[man MAN {kur}ELAM.MA{ki]}
2ša ina MURUB₄ tam-⸢ḫa⸣-[ri ik-ki-su]
3a-ḫu-ru-u ERIM.ḪI.A-ia a-na pu-⸢us⸣-[su-rat]
4ḫa-de-e u₂-šaḫ-ma-ṭu a-na KUR ⸢AN⸣.[ŠAR₂{ki]}

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