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Ashurbanipal 062 (Q003761)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 062
IDQ003761
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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44T[o the gre]at [lord, ...], powerful, sple[n]­di[d, ...], foremost among the Igīgū and Anunnakū gods, lord of [...], unrivalled king, my lord, ... [...]:
Obverse [4:17] o 55–I, Ashurbanipal, king of [Assyria, ...] ... [... the one who] is assiduous towards [your] place[s (of worship), ...] who day and night ... [...], the one who reveres your gre[at] divinity [...] ... [...] the one who directs gods and hum[anity ...], the one who prolongs (my) days, [...], I, Ashurba[nipal, ...], (rev. 1) son of the king of the gods [...] in his good physical health [...], shepherdship ... [...]
Reverse [3:14] r 44–r 1414You (Marduk), be [my] support! [...]. You, be the one who goe[s] at [my] si[de! ...]. By your ex[a]lt[ed] command, [...] day, month, and y[e]a[r ...] d[a]y, month, and year [...] ... [...] (rev. 10) so that I might praise [your] valo[r ...] listen to me, spare [me, ...] ... [...].

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)
o
1a-⸢na⸣ [EN] ⸢GAL-i⸣ [...]
2gaš-⸢ru šit-ra-ḫu⸣ [...]
3a-⸢ša₂⸣-red {d}⸢i₂-gi₃-gi₃⸣ u {⸢d}GEŠ₂.U EN⸣ [...]
4⸢LUGAL⸣ la ⸢ša₂⸣-na-an EN-⸢ia₂ KU⸣ x [...]
5⸢ana-ku⸣ {[m]}⸢AN⸣.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [AN.ŠAR₂{ki} ...]
6x-bu-u-⸢ti⸣ x x [...]
7⸢muš⸣-te-eʾ-u aš-⸢ri⸣-[ka ...]
8⸢ša₂⸣ ur-ru u GI₆ DIŠ IM x [...]
9pa-liḫ DINGIR-ti-ka ⸢GAL⸣-[ti ...]
10um-ma-ma DIŠ AN x [...]
11a-šir DINGIR.MEŠ u ⸢LU₂⸣ [...]
12mu-rik UD.⸢ME⸣ [...]
13ana-ku {m}AN.ŠAR₂-⸢DU₃⸣-[A ...]
r
1DUMU LUGAL DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...]
2ina ṭu-ub UZU-šu₂ x [...]
3SIPA-tu₂ ur-ru-x [...]
4at-ta lu ⸢tukul-ti⸣ [...]
5at-ta lu ⸢a-lik A₂⸣.[II-ia₂ ...]
6ina qi₂-bi-ti-⸢ka ṣir⸣-[ti ...]
7⸢u₄-mu⸣ ITI u MU.⸢AN.NA⸣ [...]
8⸢u₄-mu⸣ ITI u MU.⸢AN.NA⸣ x [...]
9x x (x) x x x [...]
10lu-na-⸢ʾi⸣-id ⸢qur-di⸣-[ka ...]
11ši-me a-a-⸢ši eṭ-ra⸣-[an-ni ...]
12[...]
13[...] x [...]
14[...] x [...]

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