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Ashurbanipal 141 (Q007549)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 141
IDQ007549
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 [0:4] 1'1'–4'4'[...] my weapons over [my] f[oes ...] ... [...] the presumptuous Elamite [who did] not [...] (and) destroyed the land Akkad [...].
Obverse [4:9] 5'5'–9'9'Moreover, she, the goddess Nanāya, the daughter of the god [Sîn, who ...] had spoken angrily (and) had dest[royed ...], her heart was [...]. Dream(s and) message(s) from [ecstati]cs th[at ...] she nominated me an[d ...].
Obverse [9:14] 10'10'–14'14'I, Ashurbanipal, [...] who for 1,53[5 years ...] after auspicious egirrû-oracles [...]. During the night, [my] lamassu [...] ... [...]

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'[...] {⸢giš}TUKUL.MEŠ-ia⸣ UGU ⸢ga⸣-[re-ia ...]
2'[...]-e x [...]
3'{[lu₂]}⸢e-la⸣-mu-u₂ muš-tar-ḫu la [...]
4'⸢u₂-šal⸣-pi-tu KUR URI{ki} [...]
5'u₃ ši-i {d}na-na-a DUMU.MUNUS {⸢d⸣}30 ...]
6'ag-giš taq-bu-u tu-šal-⸢pi⸣-[tu ...]
7'ib-ši lib₃-ba-ša₂ [...]
8'MAŠ₂.GI₆ ši-pir maḫ-ḫe-e ⸢ša₂⸣ [...]
9'ni-bit MU-ia taz-kur-⸢ma⸣ [...]
10'⸢a⸣-na-ku {m}⸢AN⸣.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A [...]
11'ša ina 1 ⸢LIM⸣ 5 ME 30.AM₃ 5 MU.AN.NA.MEŠ ...]
12'ul-tu e-ger-re-e SIG₅-tim x [...]
13'ina šat mu-ši la-mas-⸢si⸣ [...]
14'[...]

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