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Ashurbanipal 122 (Q003821)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 122
IDQ003821
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 [0:5] 11–55... [...] in Esagi[l ...]. When that light [...] the good of Ashurbanipal, king of the land[s ...]. Let him daily ... [(...)].

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)
1'[ša {uru}li]-⸢mer-ENSI₂⸣-[aš-šur MU-šu₂ a-na LUGAL-u₂-te aš₂-kun]
2'{[m}tar]-⸢qu⸣-u₂ MAN {kur}ku-⸢u⸣-[si ḫat-tu pu-luḫ-ti EN-ti-ia]
3'⸢is⸣-ḫu-up-šu-⸢ma⸣ [il-lik nam-mu-ši-šu₂]
4'{[m}UR-da-ma]-⸢ne₂⸣-e ⸢DUMU⸣ NIN₉-⸢šu₂⸣ [ina {giš}GU.ZA-šu₂ u₂-šib-ma u₂-ma-ʾe-er ma-a-tum]
5'{[uru}ni-iʾ a]-⸢na⸣ dan-nu-⸢ti⸣-[šu₂ iš-kun-ma u₂-pa-ḫir el-lat-su]
6'[a-na e-peš] ⸢MURUB₄⸣ u₃ ⸢ME₃⸣ [UGU ERIM.ḪI.A-ia {giš}TUKUL.MEŠ-šu₂]
7'[u₂]-⸢šat⸣-ba-a [iṣ-ba-ta ḫar-ra-na]
8'[ina tu-kul-ti] ⸢AN⸣.ŠAR₂ u₃ ⸢DINGIR⸣.[MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia]
9'[ina ME₃] ⸢EDIN rap-ši BAD₅⸣.[BAD₅-šu₂ iš-ku-nu u₂-par-ri-ru el-lat-su]

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