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Ashurbanipal 128 (Q003827)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 128
IDQ003827
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 [0:9] 1'1'–9'9'[... insid]e the land Elam [... s]aying: “Send me [...” ... (the city Bīt-Imbî)] like a great wall within the ter[ritory of ...] (5´) because [no]body [...] the territory of the land El[am ...] Undasu, who does not have sen[se or insight, ...] did not conceive with [his] mind [...] I brought a[bout] the defeat of Teumman, the king of the land Elam [...] who, for a second time, to the land Elam ... [...]

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'[...] ⸢SAG⸣ [...]
2'[qe₂]-⸢reb⸣ {kur}ELAM.MA{⸢ki⸣} [...]
3'⸢um⸣-ma šup-ra-an-ni [...]
4'ki-ma BAD₃ GAL-e ša₂ ⸢mi⸣-[ṣir ...]
5'aš₂-šu₂ ma-am-man mi-ṣir {kur}⸢ELAM⸣.[MA{ki} ...]
6'{m}un-⸢da⸣-su la ra-aš₂ ṭe₃-⸢e⸣-[me u₃ mil-ki ...]
7'ul iḫ-su-us it-ti ⸢lib₃-bi⸣-[šu₂ ...]
8'BAD₅.BAD₅ {m}te-um-man LUGAL {kur}ELAM.MA{ki} aš₂-⸢kun⸣ [...]
9'ša ša₂-ni-⸢a-nu a-na {kur}ELAM⸣ [...]

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