Ashurbanipal Babylonian 2016 (Q003855)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Ur · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal Babylonian 2016 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003855 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Ur |
| Coordinates | 30.9616, 46.1047 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap5 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:10] 2929–3838 | Copy from a baked brick from the debris of Ur, the work of Amar-Suen, king of Ur, (which) Sîn-balāssu-iqbi, viceroy of Ur, had discovered while looking for the ground-plan of Ekišnugal. Nabû-šuma-iddin, son of Iddin-Papsukkal, the lamentation-priest of the god Sîn, saw (it) and wrote (it) down for display. |
| Obverse [10:14] 3939–4242 | (No translation possible) |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | GABA.RI ⸢SIG₄⸣.AL.UR₃.RA | |
| 30 | nap-pal-ti uri₂{ki} | |
| 31 | ep-šet amar-{d}EN.ZU LUGAL u₂-ri | |
| 32 | ina ši-te-eʾ-u₂ u₂-ṣu-ra-a-ti | |
| 33 | e₂-giš-nu₁₁-gal {m}{d}EN.ZU-TIN-su-⸢iq-bi⸣ | |
| 34 | GIR₃.NITA₂ ⸢URI₅⸣{ki} iš-te-⸢eʾ-u₂⸣ | |
| 35 | {m}{d}AG-MU-SUM.NA DUMU {m}MU-{d}pap-sukkal | |
| 36 | LU₂.GALA {d}EN.($erasure$).ZU | |
| 37 | a-na ta-mar-($erasure$)-ti | |
| 38 | i-mur-ma iš-ṭur | |
| 39 | [(x)] {d}BARA₂ {d}EN.LIL₂ x | |
| 40 | [...] ⸢AN⸣ ME | |
| 41 | [...]-⸢u₂⸣ | |
| 42 | [...] x |
Sources & licences
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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