Ashurbanipal 038 (Q003737)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 038 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003737 |
| 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/rinap5 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] 11–99 | I, Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria, who by the command of the great gods, achieved his heart’s desires: They paraded before [m]e clothing (and) jewelry, royal appurtenances of Šamaš-šu[ma-u]kīn — (my) unfaithful brother — his palace women, his [eun]uchs, his battle troops, a chariot, a processional carriage, [the ve]hicle of his lordly majesty, every necessity of his palace, as much as there was, (and) people — male and female, young (and) old. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | a-na-ku {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 2 | ša₂ ina qi₂-bit DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ik-šu-du | |
| 3 | ṣu-um-me-rat lib₃-bi-šu₂ lu-⸢bul-tu₂ šu⸣-kut-tu | |
| 4 | si-mat LUGAL-u-ti ša₂ {m}{d}GIŠ.NU₁₁-⸢MU-GI⸣.NA | |
| 5 | ŠEŠ NU GI.NA {munus}sek-re-te-šu₂ {lu₂}[šu-ut] ⸢SAG.MEŠ⸣-šu₂ | |
| 6 | {lu₂}ERIM.MEŠ ME₃-šu₂ {giš}GIGIR {giš}ša₂ šad-da-⸢di⸣ [ru]-kub EN-ti-šu₂ | |
| 7 | mim-ma ḫi-šiḫ-ti E₂.GAL-šu₂ ma-⸢la ba⸣-šu-u₂ | |
| 8 | UN.MEŠ zik-ru u sin-niš ⸢TUR GAL⸣ | |
| 9 | u₂-še-et-ti-qu ina ⸢maḫ⸣-ri-⸢ia⸣ |
Sources & licences
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