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Ashurbanipal 261 (Q008350)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Nuffar (Nippur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationAshurbanipal 261
IDQ008350
CollectionUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LanguageAkkadian; Sumerian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotNuffar (Nippur)
Coordinates32.1269, 45.2308

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:16] 11–1616For the god Enlil, king of the gods, sovereign of heaven (and) netherworld, prince (who decides) the fates, (5) his lord: Ashurbanipal, his obedient shepherd, mighty king, king of the world, skillfully (re)built (10) with baked bricks ... within Eḫursaggalama, his ancient royal cella.

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}en-lil₂-la₂
2lugal digir-re-e-ne-ke₄
3nir-gal₂ an ki-a
4nun nam tar-tar-ra
5lugal-a-ni-ir
6AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-IBILA
7sipa še-ga-bi
8lugal kala-ga
9lugal ki-šar₂-ra
10A-x
11ša₃ e₂-hur-sag-galam-ma-ke₄
12pa-pa-hi nam-lugal-a-ni
13libir-ra-bi-ta
14galam-bi
15sig₄ al-ur₃-ra
16mu-un-na-du₃

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