Ashurbanipal 043 (Q003742)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 043 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003742 |
| 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 [0:5] 11–55 | I, Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria, who b[y the command of (the god) Aššur and] the goddess Mullissu, achieved his heart’s desires, surro[und]ed (and) conquered the city Din[šarri, a ci]ty of the land Elam. [I brought] out [chariot]s, wagons, horses, (and) mules and I cou[nted] (them) as booty. |
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⸣ AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 2 | ša₂ ⸢ina⸣ [qi₂-bit AN.ŠAR₂ u] {d}NIN.LIL₂ ik-šu₂-du ṣu-um-me-rat lib₃-bi-šu₂ | |
| 3 | {uru}di-⸢in⸣-[LUGAL] ⸢URU⸣ ša {kur}ELAM.MA{ki} | |
| 4 | ⸢al-me⸣ KUR-⸢ud {giš⸣}[GIGIR].⸢MEŠ⸣ {giš}ṣu-um-bi ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ | |
| 5 | ⸢ANŠE.KUNGA⸣.MEŠ [u₂-še-ṣa]-am-ma šal-la-tiš am-[nu] |
Sources & licences
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