Ashurbanipal 259 (Q008348)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Nuffar (Nippur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Ashurbanipal 259 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q008348 |
| Collection | Seminar für Assyriologie, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Yale Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA |
| Language | Akkadian; Sumerian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Nuffar (Nippur) |
| Coordinates | 32.1269, 45.2308 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap5 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:11] 11–1111 | For the god Enlil, lord of the lands, his lord: Ashurbanipal, (5) his obedient shepherd, mighty king, king of the four quarters (of the world), (re)built Ekur, his beloved temple, with baked bricks. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | {d}en-lil₂-la₂ | |
| 2 | lugal diŋir-re-e-ne-ke₄ | |
| 3 | nir-ŋal₂ an ki-a | |
| 4 | nun nam tar-tar-ra | |
| 5 | lugal-a-ni-ir | |
| 6 | AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-IBILA | |
| 7 | sipad še-ga-bi | |
| 8 | lugal kalag-ga | |
| 9 | lugal ki-šar₂-ra | |
| 10 | A-x | |
| 11 | šag₄ e₂-hur-saŋ-galam-ma-ke₄ | |
| 12 | pa-pa-hi nam-lugal-a-ni | |
| 13 | libir-ra-bi-ta | |
| 14 | galam-bi | |
| 15 | šeg₁₂ al-ur₃-ra | |
| 16 | mu-un-na-du₃ |
Sources & licences
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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