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Ashurbanipal 051 (Q003750)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 051
IDQ003750
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 [0:6] 11–66[I, Ashurbani]pal, king of the world, king of Assyria, [who with the support of (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar], conquered his enemies [..., surrounded (and) conquered the ci]ty Bīt-Luppi. [I brought out the pe]ople living in it, [chariots, wagons], horses, (and) [mules and] counted (them) as [boo]ty.

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)
1[a-na-ku AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃]-A MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki}
2[ša₂ ina tukul-ti AN.ŠAR₂ u {d}15 {lu₂]}KUR₂.MEŠ-šu₂ ik-šu-du
3[...] {⸢uru⸣}E₂-{m}lu-up-pi
4[al-me KUR-ud] ⸢UN⸣.MEŠ a-šib lib₃-bi-šu₂
5{[giš}GIGIR.MEŠ {giš}ṣu-um-bi] ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ
6[ANŠE.KUNGA.MEŠ u₂-še-ṣa-am-ma šal]-⸢la⸣-tiš am-nu

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