Ashurbanipal 129 (Q003828)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 129 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003828 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | [... he (Uaiteʾ (Iautaʾ)) abando]ned me and [sided with Šamaš-šuma-ukīn ... I dispatched my troops, wh]o were statio[ned] on the border of his land, [...], my lord, I brought about his defeat (and) [I inflicted] a [heavy] l[oss on him ...] I carried off [without nu]mber. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | (As for) Uaiteʾ (Iautaʾ), har[dship befell him ...]. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'–o 7'7' | [Abī-Yateʾ], son of Tēʾri, [came] to Nineveh [... I installed him as king in place of U]aite[ʾ (Iautaʾ) ...]. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | [... the deities ..., Šama]š, Adad, [Bēl (Marduk), ...] in a [widespread] pitched battle [... I captured Ammi-ladīn (and)] the rest of his people wh[o ...] I placed [his hands and feet in] iron [fetters] and brought (him) to [Assyria]. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | [...] I captured her (Adiya) [a]live (and) with [the plunder of her land ...]. |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | [Natnu, the king of land of the Nabayat]eans — whose location is remo[te — ... who had never sent his messenger to the kings], my [ancestor]s, [...] |
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 | ||
| 1' | [... u₂-maš]-⸢šir⸣-an-ni-⸢ma⸣ [it-ti {m}{d}GIŠ.NU₁₁-MU-GI.NA ...] | |
| 2' | [... ERIM.ḪI.A-ia] ⸢ša⸣ ina mi-ṣir KUR-šu₂ aš₂-[bu ...] | |
| 3' | [...] EN-ia BAD₅.BAD₅-šu₂ aš₂-kun di-[ik-ta-šu₂ ...] | |
| 4' | [... ina la] ⸢mi₃⸣-ni aš₂-lu-la {m}u₂-a-a-te-eʾ ma-⸢ru⸣-[uš-tu₂ ...] | |
| 5' | [... {m}a-bi-ia-te-eʾ] ⸢DUMU⸣ {m}te-⸢eʾ-ri⸣ a-na ⸢NINA⸣{[ki} ...] | |
| 6' | [... ku-um {m}u₂]-a-a-⸢te⸣-[eʾ ...] | |
| 7' | [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [... {d]}⸢UTU⸣ {d}IŠKUR {d}[EN ...] | |
| 2 | [...] ina ME₃ EDIN [...] | |
| 3 | [... {m}am-mu-la-di-in] si-it-ti UN.MEŠ-šu₂ ⸢ša⸣ [...] | |
| 4 | [...] AN.BAR ad-di-ma u₂-ra-a a-na [KUR aš-šur{ki} ...] | |
| 5 | [...] ⸢bal-ṭu⸣-us-sa ina ŠU.II aṣ-bat it-ti [ḫu-bu-ut KUR-ša₂ ...] | |
| 6 | [(...) {m}na-at-nu LUGAL {kur}na-ba-a]-a-ti ša₂ a-šar-šu₂ ru-⸢u₂⸣-[qu ...] | |
| 7 | [... a-na LUGAL.MEŠ AD].⸢MEŠ-ia {lu₂⸣}[A KIN-šu₂ ...] | |
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