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Ashurbanipal 063 (Q003762)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 063
IDQ003762
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 [0:9] 11–99The palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of [Assyria], the one who conquered the wi[de] land Elam (and) who devastated [its] settl[ements], son of Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of A[ssyria], son of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of [Assyria], descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of [Assyria] — after [I had brought about] the defeat of <Te>umman i[n battle], by the command of the gods Aššur and Marduk, in[side Nineveh, ...] an i[mage of] my [royal majest]y [...]

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)
1KUR {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN ŠU₂ MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [AN.ŠAR₂{ki]}
2ka-šid {kur}ELAM.MA{ki} ra-[pa-aš₂-tu₂]
3mu-šaḫ-rib da-⸢ad₂⸣-[me-ša₂]
4A {m}AN.ŠAR₂-PAP-AŠ MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR ⸢AN⸣.[ŠAR₂{ki]}
5A {m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠU₂ MAN ⸢KUR⸣ [AN.ŠAR₂{ki]}
6ŠA₃.BAL.BAL {m}LUGAL-GI.NA MAN ŠU₂ MAN [KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki]}
7ul-tu₂ BAD₅.BAD₅ {m}<te>-um-man i-⸢na⸣ [ME₃ aš₂-ku-nu]
8ina qi₂-bit AN.ŠAR₂ u {d}AMAR.UTU ina ⸢qe₂⸣-[reb NINA{ki]}
9⸢ṣa⸣-[lam LUGAL-u₂]-⸢ti⸣-ia {na₄}[...]

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