Ashurbanipal 057 (Q003756)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 057 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003756 |
| 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 sport, seized a lion that was born in the steppe (lit. “of its plain”) by its tail and, through the command of the gods Ninurta (and) Nergal, the gods who support me, shattered its skull with the mace that was in my hand. |
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 LUGAL ŠU₂ LUGAL KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 2 | ina me-lul-ti NUN-ti-ia UR.MAḪ ša₂ EDIN-šu₂ ina KUN-šu₂ aṣ-bat-ma | |
| 3 | ina qi₂-bit {d}nin-urta {d}U.GUR DINGIR.MEŠ ti-ik-le-ia | |
| 4 | ina {giš}ḫu-ut-pal-e ša ŠU.II-ia muḫ-ḫa-šu ⸢u₂-lat⸣-ti |
Sources & licences
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