Ashurbanipal 078 (Q003777)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 078 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003777 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | [I had mercy on him (Uallî)]. I [dispatched my messenger with (a message of) goodw]ill [to him. He sent me (his) daughter, his own offspring, to serve as a housekeeper. (As for) his former payment, which they had discontinued in] the time of the ki[ngs, my ancestors, they carried (it) before me]. I add[ed thirty horses to his former payment and imposed (it) upon him]. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 4'4'–o 6'6' | [At that time, (as for) Birisḫatri, a city ruler of the M]edes, (and) Sara[ti (and) Pariḫi, two sons of Gagî, a city ruler of the land Saḫi, who had cast off the yoke of m]y [lordship, I conquered (and) plundered] seventy-five of [their fortified] cities. [I captured them alive (and)] took (them) t[o Nineveh, my capital city]. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | [(As for) Andaria, the governor/field marshal of the land Ura]rṭu, who [had advanced (and) ma]rched dur[ing the night] to [conquer the lands (of the cities) Uppumu and Kullimmeri, the people living in the city Kullimmeri, servants who belonged to me], infli[cted a heav]y [defeat on him during the night. (...)]. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | (No translation possible) |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [... šul]-⸢me u₂⸣-[ma-ʾe-er ...] | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢ter-ṣi LUGAL⸣.[MEŠ ...] | |
| 3' | [...] u₂-⸢rad⸣-[di-ma ...] | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢mad⸣-a-a {m}sar-⸢a⸣-[ti ...] | |
| 5' | [... EN-ti]-⸢ia⸣ 75 URU.MEŠ-[šu₂-nu ...] | |
| 6' | [...] ⸢al⸣-qa-a a-⸢na⸣ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [... {kur}ur]-⸢ar⸣-ṭi ša₂ ⸢a⸣-na [...] | |
| 2 | [... il]-li-ka ⸢qe₂⸣-[reb ...] | |
| 3 | [... ma-(aʾ)-as]-⸢su⸣ i-⸢du⸣-[ku ...] | |
| 4 | [...] TU SU [...] | |
| 5 | [...] x KUR ŠI [...] | |
| 6 | [...] x [...] | |
Sources & licences
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