The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1

Novotny, Jamie and Jeffers, Joshua (2018): The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1. Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, Vol. 5. University Park: Eisenbrauns.

Abstract

In this book, Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers provide updated, reliable editions of seventy-one historical inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, including all historical inscriptions on clay prisms, clay cylinders, wall slabs, and other stone objects from Nineveh, Assur, and Kalhu. Each text edition is accompanied by an English translation, a catalog of all exemplars, a comprehensive bibliography, and commentary containing notes and technical information. This volume also contains a general introduction to the reign of Ashurbanipal, his military campaigns, the corpus of inscriptions, previous studies, and chronology; translations of the relevant passages of several Mesopotamian chronicles and king lists; photographs of objects inscribed with texts of Ashurbanipal; indexes of museum and excavation numbers, selected publications, and proper names.

• Item Type: Monograph
• Keywords: Ashurbanipal; Assyria; Royal Inscriptions; Neo-Assyrian; Cuneiform; Akkadian; Nineveh; Assur; Calah
• Faculties: History and Art History > Department of History > Ancient History
• Subjects: 400 Language > 490 Other languages; 900 History and geography > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
• ISBN: 978-1-575069-975
• Place of Publication: University Park
• Language: English