Ashurbanipal 180 (Q007588)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 180 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007588 |
| 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 [1:7] o? 2'2'–o? 7'7' | I [capture]d [... who had perpet]rated sedition and rebellion. [I ...] them and, in order (obv.? 5´) [to show] the might of (the god) Aššur and the goddess Mullissu, I sat them on camels. ... (like) gnats, they were creating noise with the Assyrians, who were celebrating before me. |
| Obverse [7:11] o? 8'8'–o? 11'11' | I, Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria: They were parading b[efore me] Ammi-ladīn, the king of the land Qedar, whom I had cap[tured] with the support of (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar. |
| Reverse [0:5] r? 1r? 1–r? 55 | I, Ashurbanipal, [king of Assyria], who by the command of the great gods [conquered his] enemies (and) achieved his heart’s desire: I joyfully entered Ni[neveh], my capital city, with A[mmi-ladīn], whom I had captured. |
| Reverse [5:6] r? 66–r? 66 | (Of) the east wing, [upo]n the walls. |
| Reverse [6:15] r? 77–r? 1515 | I, Ashurbanipal, king of the world, kin[g of] Assyria, for [w]hom (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar had determined a favorable destiny: (rev.? 10) [...], my gods who had encouraged me [...], I [joyfully] entered Nineveh, my capital city, [with] Tammarītu, the king of the land Elam, [his brothers], his [fa]mily, the seed of his father’s house, [and the eighty-five no]bles who march at his side, my enemies, [who had fl]ed to me and grasped the feet of my royal majesty. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o? | ||
| 1' | [...] x | |
| 2' | [... e]-⸢piš⸣ si-ḫi u bar-ti | |
| 3' | [... ik-šu]-⸢da⸣ ŠU.II-a-a | |
| 4' | [...]-⸢šu₂-nu⸣-ti-⸢ma⸣ aš₂-šu₂ da-na-an AN.ŠAR₂ u {d}NIN.LIL₂ | |
| 5' | [kul-lu-mi] EDIN ANŠE.A.AB.BA.MEŠ u₂-še-šib-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| 6' | x x ⸢baq⸣-qe₂ u₂-ḫa-am-ba-bu it-ti DUMU.MEŠ KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 7' | ša ina IGI-ia ip-pu-šu nin-gu-tu₂ | |
| 8' | a-na-ku {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 9' | {m}am-mu-la-di LUGAL {kur}qa-ad-ri | |
| 10' | ša₂ ina tukul-ti AN.ŠAR₂ u {d}15 ⸢ik⸣-[šu-da] | |
| 11' | ŠU.II-a-a u₂-še-et-ti-qu ⸢ina⸣ [IGI-ia] | |
| r? | ||
| 1 | [a]-⸢na-ku⸣ {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-⸢A⸣ [MAN KUR AN.ŠAR₂{ki]} | |
| 2 | ša₂ ina qi₂-bit DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ {lu₂}KUR₂.⸢MEŠ⸣-[šu₂ ik-šu-du] | |
| 3 | im-ṣu-u ma-la ŠA₃-šu₂ it-ti {m}⸢am⸣-[mu-la-di] | |
| 4 | ša₂ ik-šu-da ŠU.II-a-a a-na ⸢NINA⸣{[ki]} | |
| 5 | URU EN-u-ti-⸢ia ḫa⸣-diš ⸢e-ru-ub⸣ | |
| 6 | E₂ {im}KUR.RA [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ E₂.⸢GAR₈⸣.MEŠ | |
| 7 | a-na-ku {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN ŠU₂ ⸢MAN KUR⸣ AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 8 | ⸢ša₂ AN.ŠAR₂⸣ u {d}15 i-ši-mu-uš-šu₂ ši-mat SIG₅-tim | |
| 9 | [it-ti] {⸢m}tam⸣-ma-ri-tu₂ MAN {kur}ELAM.MA{ki} | |
| 10 | [ŠEŠ.MEŠ-šu₂] ⸢qin⸣-ni-šu₂ NUMUN E₂ AD-šu₂ | |
| 11 | [u 85 ⸢NUN⸣.MEŠ a-lik A₂.II-šu₂ {lu₂}KUR₂.MEŠ-ia | |
| 12 | [ša₂ in]-⸢nab⸣-tu₂-nim-⸢ma⸣ iṣ-ba-tu₂ GIR₃.II LUGAL-ti-ia | |
| 13 | [...] x DINGIR.MEŠ-ia u₂-tak-ki-lu-in-ni | |
| 14 | [...] ⸢a-na⸣ NINA{ki} URU EN-ti-ia | |
| 15 | [ḫa-diš] ⸢e⸣-ru-ub | |
| 16 | [...] x x | |
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