Ashurbanipal 108 (Q003807)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 108 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003807 |
| 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 [0:4] 11–44 | For the god Asari, great lord, his lord: Ashurbanipal, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, son of Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria, (and) king of Babylon, for the sake of his life had Etemenanki constructed anew. |
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? i | ||
| 1' | AN.ŠAR₂ {⸢d⸣}[...] | |
| 2' | {d}⸢MAŠ {d⸣}U.⸢GUR⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | x x x [...] | |
| r? i' | ||
| 1' | [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | [ar-de-e-ma al-lik] ṣe-⸢er⸣ {[m}um-man-al-da-si] | |
| 3' | [MAN {kur}ELAM.MA{ki} ša] ⸢la⸣ ik-⸢nu⸣-[ša₂ a-na {giš}ŠUDUN-ia] | |
| 4' | [ina] ⸢me⸣-ti-⸢iq⸣ [ger-ri]-⸢ia⸣ {uru}BAD₃-{⸢m⸣}un-da-⸢a-si⸣ | |
| 5' | URU LUGAL-u-ti-šu₂ ak-šu-ud ERIM.ḪI.⸢A⸣-ia {id₂}id-id-⸢e⸣ | |
| 6' | a-gu-u šam-ru e-mu-ru ip-la-ḫu a-na ne₂-ba-ar-ti | |
| 7' | {d}15 a-ši-bat LIMMU₂-DINGIR{⸢ki⸣} [ina] ⸢šat⸣ GE₆ a-⸢na⸣ ERIM.ḪI.A-ia | |
| 8' | MAŠ₂.GI₆ u₂-šab-ri-[ma] ⸢ki⸣-a-⸢am⸣ iq-⸢bi⸣-[šu₂-nu-ti] | |
| 9' | um-ma a-na-ku al-lak ina ⸢ma⸣-ḫar {m}⸢AN.ŠAR₂⸣-[DU₃-A] | |
| 10' | LUGAL ša₂ ib-na-a ŠU.II-a-a e-li [MAŠ₂.GI₆ an-ni-ti] | |
| 11' | ERIM.ḪI.A-ia ir-ḫu-ṣu {⸢id₂⸣}id-id-⸢e⸣ [e-bi-ru šal-meš] | |
| 12' | 14 URU.MEŠ ⸢mu⸣-šab LUGAL-ti-šu₂ ⸢a⸣-di URU.MEŠ ⸢TUR⸣.[MEŠ ša₂ ni-i-ba la i-šu-u] | |
| 13' | ⸢u₃⸣ 12 na-ge-e ša₂ qe₂-⸢reb⸣ {[kur}ELAM.MA{ki} ka-li-ša₂ ak-šu-ud] | |
| 14' | ⸢ap-pul⸣ aq-qur ina {d}GIŠ.BAR aq-⸢mu⸣ [a-na DU₆ u kar-me u₂-ter ina la mi₃-ni a-duk] | |
| 15' | {[lu₂]}⸢qu⸣-ra-a-di-⸢šu₂⸣ ina {⸢giš⸣}[TUKUL.MEŠ u₂-ras-sib mun-daḫ-ṣe-e-šu₂ MAḪ.MEŠ] | |
| 16' | {[m}um]-⸢man⸣-al-da-⸢si⸣ [MAN {kur}ELAM.MA{ki]} | |
| 17' | [mi]-⸢ra⸣-nu-⸢uš⸣-[šu₂ in-na-bit-ma iṣ-ba-ta KUR-u₂] | |
| 18' | {[uru]}⸢ba⸣-nu-⸢nu⸣ [a-di na-ge-e ša₂ {uru}ta-sa-ar-ra] | |
| 19' | [ka]-⸢la-mu⸣ [ak-šu-ud ...] | |
Sources & licences
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