Ashurbanipal 055 (Q003754)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 055 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003754 |
| 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 [0:4] 11–44 | I, Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria — while (carrying out) [my princely] spor[t], they had [a fi]erce [lion] that was born in the steppe (lit. “of its plain”) brought out of a cage and, while on foot, I pierced (it) three times with arrow(s) [(but)] its life did not come to an end. Through the command of the god Palil, the king of the steppe who had generously gr<anted> me power (and) vir[ilit]y, I subsequently stabbed it with my iron belt-dagger [(and)] it laid down (its) life. |
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} ina me-lul-⸢ti⸣ [NUN-ti-ia UR.MAḪ] ⸢ez⸣-zu ša₂ EDIN-šu₂ TA ŠA₃ {giš}na-bar-ti | |
| 2 | u₂-še-ṣu-nim-ma ina GIR₃.II-ia ina {giš}KAK.⸢TI 3-šu₂ as-ḫul⸣-[(ma)] ⸢na-piš⸣-ta-šu₂ ul iq-ti | |
| 3 | ina qi₂-bit {d}IGI.DU LUGAL EDIN ša dun-nu zik-[ru]-⸢tu⸣ u₂-šat-<li-ma>-⸢an-ni⸣ | |
| 4 | EGIR ina GIR₂ AN.BAR šib-bi-ia as-ḫul-šu-[(ma)] na-piš-tu₂ iš-kun |
Sources & licences
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