Ashurbanipal 166 (Q007574)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 166 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007574 |
| 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' | [... the land E]lam [...] his [...] the bow, the b[asis of his strength ...]. |
| Obverse [2:4] 3'3'–4'4' | [I blocked up the Ulāya River with the corpses of the wa]rriors (and) young men o[f the land Elam. For three days], I [made] that [ri]ver, [at its crest, flow with their blood instead of water]. |
| Obverse [4:7] 5'5'–7'7' | [...] who inside the land Elam [...] the might[y] deeds [... the land Ela]m [...] |
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' | [... {kur]}⸢ELAM⸣.MA{⸢ki⸣} [...] | |
| 2' | [...]-šu₂ {giš}PAN ⸢tuk⸣-[lat A₂-šu₂ ...] | |
| 3' | [ADDA.MEŠ qu]-ra-di GURUŠ.MEŠ ⸢ša⸣ {[kur}ELAM.MA{ki} {id₂}u₂-la-a-a as-ki-ir UŠ₂.MEŠ-šu₂-nu ku-um A.MEŠ] | |
| 4' | 3 u₄-me] ⸢ID₂⸣ šu-a-tu ⸢u₂⸣-[šar-di a-na kiš-ša₂-ti-ša₂] | |
| 5' | [...] ša ⸢qe₂⸣-reb {kur}e-lam-⸢ti⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [...] x ep-šet da-na-⸢an⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | [... {kur}e]-⸢lam⸣-ti [...] |
Sources & licences
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