Ashurbanipal 144 (Q007552)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 144 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007552 |
| 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 [0:7] 1'1'–7'7' | [... e]vil (ways) [... (The god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar, who mar]ched [at my side (and) allowed me to stand ...], saw [the dangerous (and) rebellio]us [thought(s) ... and ...] they made [him] return [... (5´) ... in]side the land Elam [...] cress [... people — ma]le and female — oxe[n ...]. |
| Obverse [7:9] 8'8'–9'9' | [... against h]im. [He (then) fled] alone [... where he had always fle]d, [I caught him] like a f[alcon and ...] |
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' | [...] ⸢ḪUL-tu⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [... il]-⸢li⸣-ku ⸢u₂⸣-[ša₂-zi-zu-in-ni ...] | |
| 3' | [... ba-ra-nu]-u₂ ib-ru-[u₂-ma ...] | |
| 4' | [...] u₂-ter-ru-⸢niš⸣-[šu₂ ...] | |
| 5' | [... qe₂]-reb {kur}ELAM.MA{[ki} ...] | |
| 6' | [...] {⸢u₂⸣}ZAG.ḪI.LI{[sar} ...] | |
| 7' | [...] ⸢NITA⸣ u MUNUS GU₄.[MEŠ ...] | |
| 8' | [... UGU]-⸢šu₂⸣ e-diš-ši-šu₂ [...] | |
| 9' | [... it-ta-nap-raš-ši]-⸢du ki-ma SUR₂⸣.[DU₃{mušen} ...] |
Sources & licences
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