Ashurbanipal 187 (Q007595)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 187 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007595 |
| 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 [0:8] 1'1'–8'8' | [...] ... [..., the thir]d (lion), I struck (its) kidneys but did not [...] ... [...], the fourth, I smashed (its) skull and ... [...], the fifth, I cut through its tendon and ... [...]. (5´) With my single, lordly, harnessed team (and) the v[ehicle of my royal majesty], forty minutes after dawn, I [quelled] the fury of eighteen raging lions [...] I threw their corpses opposite one another [into] heaps [...]. I made their blood flow and [...] the vegetation of the steppe like [...]. |
| Obverse [8:12] 9'9'–12'12' | (At) the place (where) I killed those lions, I ... [...]. This field, which the people of my palace [named] “He [...] the Lio[n(s) ...],” that field to Mullissu, who dwells in Nineveh which she love[s, ...] in order to give her offerings (and) contributions (and) to provide (them) more lavishly than the regular offerings of the (other) god[s ...]. |
| Obverse [12:16] 13'13'–16'16' | When Mullissu [...] the scent of offerings of gra[in ...] and the giving of his regular offerings ... [...]. (15´) May [her] hear[t] rejoice [...] with pleasure [...] |
| Left [0:2] l.e. 1l.e. 1–l.e. 22 | (No translation possible) |
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 x x (x) [...] | |
| 2' | [šal]-⸢šu₂ UZU.ELLAG₂.MEŠ⸣ am-ḫa-aṣ-ma ul [x x] x x [...] | |
| 3' | ⸢re⸣-bu-u muḫ-ḫa am-ḫa-as-su-ma [(x)] ⸢A⸣ ŠU₂ E x [...] | |
| 4' | ḫa-an-šu₂ ma-at-nu-šu₂ u₂-bat-ti-⸢iq-ma⸣ A RI x [...] | |
| 5' | ina 1-et {anše}u₂-re-e ṣi-mit-ti be-lu-ti-ia ⸢ru⸣-[kub LUGAL-ti-ia] | |
| 6' | 10 UŠ u₄-mu ina a-la-ki ša 18 UR.MAḪ.MEŠ ⸢na⸣-ad-ru-ti uz-za-šu₂-nu ⸢u₂⸣-[šap-ši-iḫ ...] | |
| 7' | ADDA.MEŠ-šu₂-nu me₂-eḫ-ret a-⸢ḫa-meš ad⸣-di gu-ru-⸢un⸣-[niš ...] | |
| 8' | UŠ₂.MEŠ-šu₂-nu ⸢u₂⸣-šar-di-ma ur-⸢qi₂-it⸣ EDIN GIM ⸢na⸣-[...] | |
| 9' | a-šar UR.MAḪ.MEŠ šu₂-nu-ti a-du-ku u₂-šal-x [...] | |
| 10' | A.ŠA₃ an-nu-u ša UN.MEŠ E₂.GAL-ia šu-u₂ UR.⸢MAḪ⸣.[(MEŠ) ...] | |
| 11' | A.ŠA₃ šu-⸢a-tu⸣ a-na {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-ši-bat NINA{ki} ša ta-ram-[mu ...] | |
| 12' | a-na na-dan zi-be₂-e-ša₂ gi-ne₂-ša₂ ṭuḫ-ḫu-di UGU sat-tuk-⸢ki⸣ DINGIR.[MEŠ ...] | |
| 13' | e-nu-ma {d}NIN.LIL₂ e-ri-iš NIDBA.MEŠ {⸢d}nisaba⸣ [...] | |
| 14' | u₃ na-dan sat-tuk-ke-e-šu₂ x x [...] | |
| 15' | li-li-iṣ lib₃-⸢ba⸣-[ša₂ ...] | |
| 16' | [x] x ⸢ḫa⸣-diš (x) [...] | |
| l.e. | ||
| 1 | [...] ŠA₂ ⸢TIR⸣ GIŠ SI [...] | |
| 2 | [...] ŠI x [...] | |
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