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Ashurbanipal 138 (Q007546)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 138
IDQ007546
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 [0:6] 1'1'–6'6'[...] ... [... he (Ummanaldašu (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš III))] abandoned [...] and fled [...] that [riv]er as [his] defen[sive position ...] to f[ight with me ... (5´) ...] was heaped up [lik]e a mountain [...] of the lands, who does not revere [...].
Obverse [6:9] 7'7'–9'9'[...] Ummanaldašu (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš III) [...] safel[y ...]

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'[...] x x x (x) [...]
2'[... u₂]-maš-šir-ma in-na-[bit ...]
3'[...] ⸢ID₂⸣ šu-a-tu a-na dan-[nu-ti-šu₂ ...]
4'[...] a-na ⸢ṣa⸣-[al-ti-ia ...]
5'[...] x ša₂-de-e šap-kat₃ x [...]
6'[...] ⸢BI⸣ KUR.KUR la pa-liḫ x [...]
7'[...] {⸢m⸣}um-man-al-da-⸢si⸣ x [...]
8'[...] šal-mi₃-⸢iš⸣ [...]
9'[...] x [...]

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