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Ashurbanipal 077 (Q003776)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 077
IDQ003776
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 Column i [0:7] i' 1'1'–i' 7'7'[He sent Erisi]nni, [his] heir designat[e, to Nineveh] and he kissed my feet. I had [mercy] on him and (then) I dispatched [my messenger with (a message of) go]odwill to him. (i´ 5´) [H]e sent me [(his) daughter, his own offspring], to serve as a housekeeper. [(As for) his former payment, which they had discontinued i]n the time of the kings, [my ancestors, they carried (it)] b[ef]ore 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)
i'
1'{[m}e-ri-si-in]-⸢ni DUMU ri-du-ti⸣-[šu₂]
2'[a-na NINA{ki} iš-pur]-⸢am⸣-ma u₂-na-aš₂-šiq GIR₃.II-⸢ia⸣
3'[re-e-mu] ar-ši-šu-ma
4'{[lu₂}A KIN-ia ša₂] ⸢šul⸣-me u₂-ma-ʾe-er EDIN-uš-šu₂
5'[DUMU.MUNUS ṣi-it lib₃-bi-šu₂] ⸢u₂-še-bi⸣-la a-na e-peš {munus}AGRIG-u-ti
6'[ma-da-ta-šu₂ maḫ-ri-tu₂ ša₂ i]-⸢na⸣ ter-ṣi LUGAL.MEŠ
7'[AD.MEŠ-ia u₂-šab-ṭi-lu iš-šu-u-ni a]-⸢di maḫ-ri-ia⸣

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