Ashurbanipal 190 (Q007598)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 190 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007598 |
| 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 Column i [0:12] i 1i 1–i 1212 | [Before] my [father] was bor[n] (and) my [birt]h-[mother] was created in [her] moth[er’s] womb, the god Sîn, who created me to be king, named me [to] (re)build Eḫulḫul, (i 5) saying: “Ashurbanipal will (re)build that temple and make me dwell therein upon an eternal dais.” The word of the god Sîn, which he had spoken in distant days, he now revealed to the people of a later generation. He allowed the temple of the god Sîn — which Shalmaneser (III), son of Ashurnasirpal (II), (i 10) [a ki]ng of the past (who had come) before me, had built — to become [ol]d and [he entrus]ted (its renovation) to me. |
| Obverse Column i [12:15] i 1313–i 1515 | [(As for) that temple, which] had become [o]ld, I removed its [d]ilapidated section(s) [by the command of the gods Sîn (and) Nusku]. I made its [s]tr[u]cture larger [than the one in the days of the past]. |
| Obverse Column ii [0:5] ii 1'1'–ii 5'5' | (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) |
|---|---|---|
| i | ||
| 1 | [a-di a-di-ni a]-⸢bi la im-ma-al-la⸣-[du] | |
| 2 | [um-mi₃ a-lit]-ti ⸢la ba⸣-na-a-ta ina lib₃-bi ⸢AMA⸣-[ša₂] | |
| 3 | [a-na] ⸢e⸣-peš e₂-ḫul₂-ḫul₂ iz-kur ni-bit MU-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4 | {⸢d⸣}30 ša₂ ib-na-an-ni a-na LUGAL-u-ti | |
| 5 | um-ma {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A E₂.KUR šu₂-a-tu₂ ip-pu-uš-ma | |
| 6 | qe₂-reb-šu₂ u₂-⸢šar⸣-man-ni pa-rak da-ra-a-ti | |
| 7 | ⸢a⸣-mat {d}30 ša₂ ul-tu u₄-me ru-qu-ti iq-bu-u | |
| 8 | e-nen-na u₂-kal-lim UN.MEŠ ar-ku-u-ti | |
| 9 | ⸢E₂⸣ {d}30 ša₂ {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ A {m}aš-šur-PAP-IBILA($erased$) | |
| 10 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ pa-ni maḫ-ri-ia e-pu-šu₂($erased$) | |
| 11 | [la]-⸢ba⸣-riš u₂-ša₂-lik-ma($erased$) | |
| 12 | [u₂-šad-gi]-la pa-nu-u-a($erased$) | |
| 13 | [E₂.KUR šu-a-tu ša₂] ⸢la⸣-ba-riš il-li-ku | |
| 14 | [ina a-mat {d}30 {d}nusku] ⸢an⸣-ḫu-us-su ad-⸢ke⸣ | |
| 15 | [e-li ša u₄-me pa-ni] ⸢šu-bat⸣-su u₂-⸢rap-piš⸣ | |
| ii | ||
| 1' | [...] | |
| 2' | 18 [...] | |
| 3' | {m}⸢GIŠ⸣.[...] | |
| 4' | [...] | |
| 5' | x [...] | |
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