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Ashurbanipal 249 (Q008338)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Babylon (Bābili) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationAshurbanipal 249
IDQ008338
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; British Museum, London, UK
LanguageSumerian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotBabylon (Bābili)
Coordinates32.5434, 44.4222

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:3] 11–33For the god Marduk, his lord: Ashurbanipal, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, for the sake of his life had baked bricks made anew for Etemenanki.

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)
1{d}asar-ri umun gal lugal-a-ni-ir {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A
2lugal imin lugal ma-da aš-šur{ki} dumu {m}AN.ŠAR₂-PAP-AŠ
3lugal imin lugal ma-da aš-šur{ki} lugal TIN.TIR{ki}
4nam-ti-la-bi-še₃ e₂-temen-an-ki eš-šiš mu-na-dim₂

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