Ashurbanipal 177 (Q007585)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 177 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007585 |
| 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 [1:9] 2'2'–9'9' | [I, Ashurbani]pal, king of Assyria, [whom (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar made stand over his foes (and who) a]chieved [his heart’s] desir[es: Tammarītu, the king of the land Elam, set out to aid Ša]maš-šuma-ukīn — [(my) hostile brother — (5´) (and) to fight with] my [troop]s. [He, together with his brothers, his family, the seed of h]is [father’s house], and [his] nobl[es fled to Nineveh] f[rom Indabibi, a servant of his who] had incited [rebellion against him, and (then)] ki[ssed the feet of m]y [royal majesty and made an appea]l [to my lordly majesty to do obeisance to me]. |
| Obverse [9:10] 10'10'–10'10' | [Ummanigaš, who forgot] the kindness of [Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, his lord], |
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' | [...] x [...] | |
| 2' | [a-na-ku {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃]-⸢A⸣ MAN KUR ⸢AN.ŠAR₂{ki⸣} [ša₂ AN.ŠAR₂ u {d}15 ṣe-er ga-re-e-šu₂] | |
| 3' | [u₂-ša₂-zi-zu-šu₂] ⸢im⸣-ṣu-u ma-⸢la⸣ [lib₃-bi-šu₂ {m}tam-ma-ri-tu₂ MAN {kur}ELAM.MA{ki]} | |
| 4' | [a-na kit-ri {m}{d}GIŠ].NU₁₁-MU-GI.NA [ŠEŠ nak-ri it-ba-a] | |
| 5' | [a-na mit-ḫu-uṣ ERIM].⸢ḪI⸣.A-ia ⸢la⸣-[pa-an {m}in-da-bi-bi ARAD-šu₂] | |
| 6' | [ša si-ḫu UGU-šu₂] ⸢u₂⸣-šab-⸢šu₂⸣-[u šu-u a-di ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šu₂] | |
| 7' | [qin-ni-šu₂ NUMUN E₂ AD]-⸢šu₂⸣ u {lu₂}⸢GAL⸣.[MEŠ-šu₂ a-na NINA{ki} in-nab-tu₂-nim-ma] | |
| 8' | [GIR₃.II LUGAL-ti]-⸢ia⸣ u₂-⸢na⸣-[šiq-ma a-na e-peš ARAD-ti-ia] | |
| 9' | [u₂-ṣal-la]-a [be-lu-ti] | |
| 10' | {[m}um-man-i-gaš ša] ⸢MUN {m⸣}[AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN KUR aš-šur EN-šu₂ in-šu₂-u] |
Sources & licences
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