Ashurbanipal 206 (Q007614)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 206 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q007614 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... of the [t]hrone, the father who engend[ered me, ...] you [en]trusted me with [...]. |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | [I, Ashurbanipal, great king], strong [k]ing, k[ing of the wor]ld, king of Assyria; [son of Esarhaddon, (king of Assyria,) king of the land of] Sumer and Akkad; (10) [grandson of Sennacherib, great king], strong [k]ing, king of the world, king of Assyria; [had a ... of mus]ukkannu-[wood], a durable wood, with silver mountings [made ... of] her great [divinity and] I set (it) up before her. |
| Obverse [12:16] o 1313– | [May the goddess Ištar ...] look upon [... with pleasure] and may (it) be acceptable to her. (rev. 1) [... may] my reign be long, [...] may [...] be set upon her lips. |
| Reverse [2:6] r 33–r 66 | [... who]m [the deities ... nom]inate [..., when ... becomes o]ld and dilapidated, [...] may he write [my name w]ith his name [... may the goddess Ištar ... h]ear his supplications. |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | [(As for) the one who ...] (and) writes his (own) [na]me, [may the goddess Ištar ...] and may she make his name (and) seed disappear from the land. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | [... of the city Arb]ela. |
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 | [...]-e | |
| 2 | [...]-šu₂ | |
| 3 | [...] | |
| 4 | [...] x x [...] | |
| 5 | [...] x ⸢RA⸣ x [...] | |
| 6 | [...] x x x {⸢giš}GU⸣.ZA AD ⸢ba-ni⸣-[ia] | |
| 7 | [...]-tim tu-⸢mal⸣-la-a ŠU.II-u-a | |
| 8 | [a-na-ku {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A LUGAL GAL-u₂] ⸢LUGAL dan⸣-nu ⸢LUGAL ŠU₂⸣ LUGAL KUR aš-šur{ki} | |
| 9 | [DUMU {m}AN.ŠAR₂-PAP-AŠ (LUGAL KUR aš-šur{ki)} LUGAL KUR] EME.GI₇ ⸢u₃⸣ URI{ki} | |
| 10 | [DUMU DUMU {m}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-SU LUGAL GAL-u₂] ⸢LUGAL⸣ dan-nu LUGAL ŠU₂ LUGAL KUR aš-šur{ki} | |
| 11 | [u₂-še-piš-ma ... {giš}MES].⸢MA₂⸣.KAN.NA iṣ-ṣi da-re-⸢e⸣ ša₂ iḫ-zu-šu₂ KU₃.BABBAR | |
| 12 | [... DINGIR-ti]-ša₂ GAL-ti ma-ḫar-ša₂ u₂-kin | |
| 13 | [... ḫa-diš] ⸢lip⸣-pa-lis-ma ⸢lim⸣-ma-ḫi-ir pa-nu-uš-ša₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [...] ⸢lil⸣-bi-ra BALA.MEŠ-a | |
| 2 | [...] x ⸢liš⸣-ša₂-kin šap-tuš-ša₂ | |
| 3 | [...] x x [(x) i]-⸢nam⸣-bu-u zi-kir-šu₂ | |
| 4 | [e-nu-ma ... i-lab-bi]-⸢ru-ma e⸣-na-⸢ḫu⸣ | |
| 5 | [...] ⸢it⸣-ti šu-mi₃-šu₂ liš-⸢ṭur⸣ | |
| 6 | [... liš]-ma-a ⸢su⸣-up-pi-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [ša ...] ⸢MU⸣-šu₂ i-šaṭ-ṭa-ru | |
| 8 | [...]-⸢ma⸣ MU-šu₂ NUMUN-šu₂ ina KUR li-ḫal-liq | |
| 9 | [... ša {uru]}⸢LIMMU₂⸣-DINGIR | |
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