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Ashurbanipal 251 (Q008340)

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

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DesignationAshurbanipal 251
IDQ008340
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 [0:4] 11–44For the god Asari, great lord, his lord: Ashurbanipal, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, son of Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria, (and) king of Babylon, for the sake of his life had Etemenanki constructed anew.

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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