Tablets Related to Sippar (text no. 231)

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This tablet fragment bears an inscription of Ashurbanipal that mentions the kidinnu-status of Sippar, Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, the hunting of lions, as well as the construction of a building, possibly the temple of the god Šamaš at Sippar (Ebabbar). The text was composed sometime between 668 and 653, that is, after Šamaš-šuma-ukīn assumed control of Babylonia, but prior to the commencement of his revolt against his younger brother.

Access the composite text [/rinap/rinap5/Q008319/] of Ashurbanipal 231.

Source: K 6232

Commentary

K 6232 preserves the middle sections of both faces of a broad single-column tablet. The scribe of the tablet separated each line of text on the obverse up to line 4´ of the reverse — the start of the building report — with a horizontal ruling. In their analysis of the object, G. Frame and A.K. Grayson (SAAB 8/1 [1994] p. 3 n. 1) observed that the tablet is poorly made and the script is clumsily executed, and so they suggested that the tablet was copied by an inexperienced scribe.

Bibliography

1891 Bezold, Cat. 2 p. 772 (study)

1994 Frame and Grayson, SAAB 8/1 pp. 3–12 (photo, copy, edition, study)

1996 Borger, BIWA p. 334; and LoBl pp. 33–34 (transliteration, study)

1998 Borger, BiOr 55 p. 849 (obv. 2´–4´, 6´, rev. 6´–7´, 9´, partial transliteration)

2002 Holloway, Aššur is King pp. 250 no. 28 and 295 no. 9 (obv. 3´, rev. 4´–15´, study)

Joshua Jeffers & Jamie Novotny

Joshua Jeffers & Jamie Novotny, 'Tablets Related to Sippar (text no. 231)', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2022 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/RINAP52TextIntroductions/TabletsPart7texts219-236/TabletsrelatedtoSippartext231/]

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