Ashurbanipal 101 (Q003800)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 101 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003800 |
| 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 [0:6] 11–66 | Ashurbanipal, [great] king, [mighty king, king of the world], king of Assyria, king of the [four] quarters (of the world), [king of kings], prince who has no rival, who rules from [the Upper Sea to the] Lower [Sea] and [has subjugated] all [rulers]; son of Esarhaddon, [great] king, [(mighty king), (king of the world), (king of Assyria), (viceroy of Babylon)], king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; [grand]son of |
| Obverse [6:11] 77–1111 | [I completed the work on Esagil] which (my) father who had engendered me had not [finished. I (re)confirmed] the regular offerings for Esagil [and the gods of Babylon. I (re-)established] the privileged status of B[abylon (and) appointed Šamas-šuma-ukīn, my favorite brother, to the kingship of Babylon in order that the strong might not harm] the weak. |
| Obverse [11:14] 1'1'–3'3' | [(But) as for the one who ... destroys my] royal ins[cription, or changes its position], may the god Ea, king of the Wat[ery Abyss (apsû), speak evil of him before the god Bēl (Marduk) (and) the goddess Bēltīya (Zarpanītu) and make] his name (and) his descendant(s) [disappear] from [the lands!] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r i' | ||
| 1' | ⸢ul⸣-[tu ṣe-ḫe-ri-ia a-di ra-be₂-ia] | |
| 2' | ⸢aš₂⸣-[te-ʾa-a aš₂-rat DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ] | |
| 3' | {⸢lu₂⸣}[ša₂-an-gu-ti iḫ-šu-ḫu] | |
| 4' | ⸢i-ram⸣-[mu na-dan zi-bi-ia] | |
| 5' | {d}⸢IŠKUR⸣ ŠEG₃.⸢MEŠ⸣-[šu₂ u₂-maš-ši-ra] | |
| 6' | {d}e₂-a u₂-⸢paṭ⸣-[ṭi-ra IDIM.MEŠ-šu₂] | |
| 7' | šat-ti-šam-⸢ma⸣ [ina ṭuḫ-di mi-ša₂-ri] | |
| 8' | ar-te-ʾa ⸢ba⸣-[ʾu-lat {d}EN.LIL₂] | |
| 9' | DINGIR.MEŠ ⸢GAL⸣.MEŠ ša ⸢ap⸣-[tal-la-ḫu DINGIR-us-su-un] | |
| 10' | ⸢dun⸣-nu [zik-ru-u-tu] | |
| 11' | e-mu-qi₂ [ṣi-ra-a-ti] | |
| 12' | u₂-šat-⸢li⸣-[mu-in-ni] | |
| r ii' | ||
| 1' | 60 KASKAL.GID₂ qaq-qa]-ru | |
| 2' | [qe₂-reb {kur}ELAM.MA{ki} u₂-šaḫ]-⸢rib⸣ | |
| 3' | [MUN {u₂}ZAG.ḪI.LI]{⸢sar⸣} | |
| 4' | [u₂-sap-pi-ḫa EDIN-uš-šu₂]-⸢un⸣ | |
| 5' | [...] x | |
| 6' | [...] x | |
| 7' | [...] x | |
Sources & licences
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