Ashurbanipal 160 (Q007568)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 160 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007568 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē] who resides in the House of Succession [that is inside Nineveh, the great lady, my lady] — |
| Reverse [1:6] r 22–r 66 | I, Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria [...] made his kin[gship] great [... grand]son of Sennacherib, ki[ng of Assyria, (rev. 5) ...] to preserve [m]y l[ife, ..., to make] the foundation(s) of [m]y royal throne [firm, ...] I restored. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | (As for) the one who [erase]s my [inscribed] name (or) [the name of] my [fathe]r (or) my grandfather (and) [writes] his (own) name, [may] the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, the great lady, [make his name (and) see]d [disappear] from the land. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | That which is (written) upon the ... [...]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1 | [ana {d}GAŠAN-GARZA] a-ši-⸢bat⸣ E₂ UŠ-u-ti | |
| 2 | [ša₂ qe₂-reb NINA{ki} GAŠAN GAL-tu₂ GAŠAN-ia a]-⸢na-ku⸣ {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A LUGAL ŠU₂ LUGAL ⸢KUR⸣ [AN].ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 3 | [...] x u₂-šar-bu-u ⸢LUGAL-us⸣-su | |
| 4 | [... DUMU] DUMU {m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU ⸢LUGAL⸣ [KUR AN.ŠAR₂]{ki} | |
| 5 | [...] x a-na TI.LA ⸢ZI⸣-[ti₃]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 6 | [... kun-ni] ⸢SUḪUŠ {giš}GU⸣.ZA LUGAL-[ti]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 7 | [...] ⸢GIBIL⸣-iš₃ ša šu-mi₃ [šaṭ-ru] | |
| 8 | [MU] ⸢AD-ia AD⸣ AD-ia [i-pa-aš₂-ši]-⸢ṭu⸣ MU-šu₂ i-[šaṭ-ṭa-ru] | |
| 9 | {⸢d⸣}GAŠAN-GARZA GAŠAN GAL-[tu MU-šu₂] ⸢NUMUN⸣-šu₂ ina KUR [li-ḫal-liq] | |
| 10 | ša ina UGU ⸢ma-KI⸣-[...] x | |
Sources & licences
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