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Ashurbanipal 150 (Q007558)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 150
IDQ007558
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 [0:16] 1'1'–16'16'[... a]nd the goddess Iš[tar ...] whee[l(s) ... the land] Elam [... (5´) ...] Tammar[ītu ... him]self [...] ... I/he took the d[irect road ...] m[y] troops [... dust storm]s were whirling abou[t ... (10´) ...] I slaught[ered] his [warrior]s [... l]ike grain, which [... a c]ommon (soldier), who [...] ..., the city Ar[... I] flattened an[d ... (15´) ...]s, as man[y as ...]

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 [...]
2'[...] ⸢u₃⸣ {d}15 [...]
3'[...] x ma-gar-⸢ri⸣ [...]
4'[... {kur]}⸢e⸣-lam-ti ⸢u₂⸣-[...]
5'[...] x {m}tam-ma-⸢ri⸣-[tu₂ ...]
6'[...] ⸢AḪ⸣ ra-man-[šu₂ ...]
7'[...] x-nu uš-te-⸢eš⸣-[še-ra ḫar-ra-nu ...]
8'[...] ⸢DA⸣ ERIM.ḪI.A-⸢ia⸣ [...]
9'[... a-šam-ša₂]-⸢ti⸣ iṣ-ṣa-nun-⸢da⸣ [...]
10'[... qu-ra]-⸢di⸣-šu₂ u₂-pal-⸢li⸣-[iq ...]
11'[...] ⸢ki⸣-ma ŠE.IM ša₂ x [...]
12'[...] ⸢a⸣-ḫu-ru-u ⸢ša₂⸣ x [...]
13'[...] x{ki} {uru}ar-x [...]
14'[...] ⸢as⸣-pu-un-⸢ma⸣ [...]
15'[...].⸢MEŠ⸣ ma-⸢la⸣ [...]
16'[...] x [...]

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