Ashurbanipal 139 (Q007547)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 139 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007547 |
| 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 [0:2] 1'1'–2'2' | (and the gods) made me stand [ov]er m[y] foes in mighty victor[ies]. |
| Obverse [2:6] 3'3'–6'6' | [I ente]red the land Elam, [brought about] their (the Elamites’) [de]feat countless (times), (and) [ma]rched about triumphant[ly]. (5´) Ummanaldašu (Ḫumban-haltaš III) became frightened by the assault of [my might]y battle array, fl[ed] naked, [and too]k to the mountain(s). |
| Obverse [6:11] 7'7'–11'11' | [I co]nquered [fourteen] fortifie[d] cities, his [roy]al [residence(s)], and small(er) [se]ttlements, [which] were [without number, together with twenty villages, in the district of the city] Ḫunnir, [(which is) on the border of the city Ḫidalu. I destroy]ed (and) demolished [the city Bašimu and the villages in its environs]. |
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' | ina ⸢li-i⸣-[ti] ⸢u₃⸣ da-na-ni | |
| 2' | ⸢u₂⸣-ša₂-⸢zi⸣-zu-⸢in-ni EDIN ga⸣-re-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 3' | ⸢qe₂-reb⸣ {kur}ELAM.MA{⸢ki⸣} [e-ru]-ub | |
| 4' | ⸢BAD₅⸣.BAD₅-šu₂-nu ina la mi₃-ni [aš₂-kun at]-tal-lak šal-⸢ṭiš⸣ | |
| 5' | {[m]}um-man-al-da-si ti-ib ⸢ME₃⸣-[ia dan]-⸢nu⸣ e-dur-ma | |
| 6' | ⸢mi⸣-ra-nu-uš-šu₂ in-⸢na⸣-[bit-ma iṣ-ba]-⸢ta⸣ ša₂-da-a | |
| 7' | 14 URU.MEŠ dan-nu-⸢ti⸣ [mu-šab LUGAL]-u₂-ti-šu₂ | |
| 8' | ⸢u₃ URU⸣.MEŠ ⸢TUR⸣.[MEŠ ša₂ ni-i-ba la] i-šu₂-u | |
| 9' | [a-di 20.AM₃ URU.MEŠ ina na-ge-e ša₂ {uru]}⸢ḫu⸣-un-nir | |
| 10' | [ina UGU mi-iṣ-ri ša₂ {uru}ḫi-da-lu ak]-⸢šu⸣-ud | |
| 11' | {[uru}ba-ši-mu u URU.MEŠ ša₂ li-me-ti-šu₂ ap]-⸢pul⸣ aq-qur |
Sources & licences
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