Ashurbanipal 123 (Q003822)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 123 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003822 |
| 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 [0:9] 1'1'–9'9' | [...] ... [... With the support of ..., Išta]r of Ar[bela, ...], they (my troops) [brought ab]out [his defeat in a widespread pitched battle] (and) scatt[ered his forces. Tanutamon fled alone] and entered [the city Thebes, his royal city. They went after him on a march of (one) month (and) ten days, (on) narrow roads, (5´) as far a]s the city Thebes, [his] fo[rtified] city. [... he f]led to [...]. They [c]onquered [that city in its entirety] (and) fl[attened (it) like the Deluge. They brought out of it (Thebes), without number (and) in abundance, silver, gold, ore from its mountain, precious stones, any precious object, the treasure]s of [his] palace, [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [...] x x [...] | |
| 2' | [... {d]}15 ša₂ {uru}⸢LIMMU₂⸣-[DINGIR ...] | |
| 3' | [... iš-ku]-nu u₂-par-⸢ri⸣-[ru ...] | |
| 4' | [... ip-par-šid]-⸢ma⸣ e-ru-⸢ub a⸣-[na ...] | |
| 5' | [... a-di qe₂]-⸢reb⸣ {uru}ni-iʾ URU ⸢dan⸣-[nu-ti-šu₂ ...] | |
| 6' | [... in]-⸢na-bit a-na⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | [...] ⸢ik-šu⸣-du ⸢is⸣-[pu-nu ...] | |
| 8' | [... ni-ṣir]-⸢ti⸣ E₂.GAL-[šu₂ ...] | |
| 9' | [...] x [...] |
Sources & licences
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