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Ashurbanipal 205 (Q007613)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationAshurbanipal 205
IDQ007613
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/rinap5 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

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Obverse [0:4] o 1'1'–o 4'4'[...] ... [...] my [...] ... his servants [rebelled] against [him and togethe]r cut down [my adversary].
Obverse [4:11] o 5'5'–o 11'11'[(As for) Tammar]ītu, the king of the land Elam, that one along with Ummanaldašu (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš), P[ara...], Ummanaldašu (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš), son of Teumman, a (former) king of the land Elam, Ummanamn[i, son of Ummanpiʾ, son of Urtaku, a (former) king of the land Elam], Ummanamni, grandson of Ummanaldašu (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš II), [a (former) king of the land Elam, (...)], with seventeen members of his family, the seed of his father’s house, and (with) eighty-eigh[t nobles of the land Elam who march at his side], who had flown away from the weapon(s) of (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar — to p[raise their great divinity], (10´) they crawled naked on their bellies, together with Marduk-šarru-uṣur, a eunuch of mine whom th[ey] had taken a[way (with them) by force, and they 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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1'[...] x x (x) x [...]
2'[...] x-ia [...]
3'[...] ⸢TI⸣/U AN NI ARAD.MEŠ-šu₂ ṣe-ru-⸢uš⸣-[šu₂ ib-bal-ki-tu-ma]
4'[a-ḫa]-⸢meš⸣ u₂-ra-si-bu [EN ḪUL-ti₃-ia]
5'{[m}tam-ma]-⸢ri-tu₂ MAN {kur}ELAM⸣.MA{ki} ⸢šu₂⸣-a-tu₂ a-di {m}um-man-al-daš {m}⸢pa⸣-[ra-...]
6'{⸢m}um⸣-man-al-da-si DUMU {m}te-um-man MAN {kur}⸢ELAM⸣.MA{ki} {m}um-man-am-⸢ni⸣ [DUMU {m}um-man-pi-iʾ DUMU {m}ur-ta-ki MAN {kur}ELAM.MA{ki]}
7'{⸢m⸣}um-man-am-ni DUMU DUMU ša {m}um-man-al-da-si [MAN {kur}ELAM.MA{ki} (...)]
8'it-ti 17 qin-ni-šu₂ NUMUN E₂ AD-šu₂ u₃ 88 [NUN.MEŠ ša₂ {kur}ELAM.MA{ki} a-li-kut A₂.II.MEŠ-šu₂]
9'ša la-pa-an {giš}TUKUL AN.ŠAR₂ u {d}15 ip-par-šu₂-nim-ma a-na ⸢da⸣-[lal DINGIR-ti-šu₂-nu GAL-ti]
10'it-ti {m}{d}AMAR.UTU-MAN-PAP {lu₂}šu-ut SAG-ia ša ib-⸢šim⸣-[mu-šu₂ ina da-na-ni]
11'mi-ra-nu-uš-šu₂-⸢un ina⸣ UGU lib₃-bi-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ ip-ši-lu-⸢nim⸣-[ma iṣ-ba-tu₂ GIR₃.II MAN-ti-ia]

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