Five badly-preserved clay tablets appear to preserve inscriptions that relate to Ashurbanipal's building activities at Uruk. However, given their fragmentary state of preservation, this is not completely certain, especially since only one of them (text no. 236) specifically preserves a reference to the city of Uruk in its subscript. But based on the internal evidence of the texts, it is likely that these five inscriptions relate to Ashurbanipal's work on the goddess Nanāya's cella Eḫiliana, which is located inside the Eanna temple complex in that city.
A fragmentarily-preserved, two-column clay tablet appears to contain copies of at least two inscriptions of Ashurbanipal. The extant portions of the first text — which is written in cols. i–ii on the obverse and in the first part of col. iii on the reverse — contains parts of the prologue (the king's genealogy and descriptions of some of his building activities) and the concluding formulae (Ashurbanipal's warnings to future rulers not to tamper with his inscribed objects). Unfortunately, the building report that would have named the specific construction project commemorated by this text is completely broken away.
The second inscription begins after a horizontal ruling and it is unique among the inscriptions of Ashurbanipal since it, as far as it is preserved, is not duplicated anywhere else in the presently-identified corpus of texts attributed to him. The text begins with ana turri tuktê ("in order to exact vengeance") and it appears to narrate events that took place during Ashurbanipal's fifth Elamite campaign, probably pertaining to the return of the Nanāya statue from Susa to the Eanna ("House of Heaven") temple complex in Uruk in 646. The text mentions the goddesses Uṣur-amāssa, Ištar of Akkad, Nanāya, and Anunītu, and given that it appears to narrate the return of Nanāya and her entourage to her temple Eḫiliana ("House of the Luxuriance of Heaven"), it is possible that both of the inscriptions written on this tablet were intended to be inscribed on objects displayed in Nanāya's temple.
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Parts of two columns on both the obverse and reverse of a broad two-column tablet and its top edge are preserved. The width of each column appears to be very wide since each line of text roughly corresponds to three lines of text no. 10 (Prism T). The contents of iv 11´–16´ are written on the top edge of the tablet.
With respect to the contents of the tablet that duplicate the king's prism inscriptions, for i 1–6, see text no. 5 (Prism I) i 1–14 and text no. 6 (Prism C) i 1´–3´, and compare text no. 10 (Prism T) i 1–12; for col. ii, see text no. 6 (Prism C) i 71´–83´ and text no. 10 (Prism T) ii 36–iii 1; and for col. iii 1´–3´, see text no. 5 (Prism I) v 30–34 and text no. 10 (Prism T) vi 46–51.
This fragment of a broad, single-column clay tablet, of which only a small portion remains, bears a summary inscription (or display inscription) of Ashurbanipal; only part of the middle section of the obverse presently survives. The extant text contains part of the historical narrative, which briefly summarizes the king's second Egyptian and second Elamite campaigns. Internal evidence from the tablet suggests that it might have been composed for an object that was destined for one of the temples at Uruk, and, thus, the inscription is tentatively edited here with the Uruk material.
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The terminus post quem for the date of composition is probably 646 since this text appears to have the same type of summary inscription as text no. 197, which contains part of a report on Ashurbanipal's second war against the Elamite king Ummanaldašu (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš III) and would have probably also included an account of the return of the goddess Nanāya's statue from Susa to the Eanna temple complex at Uruk. The mention of the goddess Nanāya with titles in obv. 7´ could indicate that this copy of Ashurbanipal's summary inscriptions was written on an object intended for her temple Eḫiliana ("House of the Luxuriance of Heaven") in that complex at Uruk.
For the contents and restorations of obv. 1´–5´, see text no. 197 obv. 23´´–27´´, and compare text no. 7 (Prism Kh) i 94´–97´ and text no. 10 (Prism T) iv 19–26; and for obv. 8´–11´, compare text no. 9 (Prism F) ii 61–68 and text no. 11 (Prism A) iii 36–45.
This poorly-preserved, multi-column clay tablet is inscribed with an annalistic text or summary inscription of Ashurbanipal. The extant text contains parts of reports about Ashurbanipal's third, fourth, and fifth Elamite campaigns. The mention of the goddess Nanāya alongside the god Aššur and the goddess Ištar in obv. ii´ 15´ and the reference to the king taking the hand of the three goddesses Nanāya, Uṣur-amāssa, and Urkayītu in rev. i 7´–8´ suggest that the text found on this fragment was an archival copy or draft of an inscription that was to be inscribed upon clay prisms or cylinders that were to be deposited in a temple at Uruk, most likely in Nanāya's cella Eḫiliana ("House of the Luxuriance of Heaven") in the Eanna temple complex.
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K 3056 is a fragment that preserves parts of two columns on both faces of a tablet, as well as part of its right edge. Given the length of lines in each of the preserved columns, this fragment most likely originated from a three-column tablet.
For obv. i´, see text no. 155 obv. 7´b–8´ and text no. 126 rev. 3–5, and compare text no. 3 (Prism B) v 97–vi 2, text no. 7 (Prism Kh) vi 10´–13´, text no. 9 (Prism F) ii 68–71, and text no. 11 (Prism A) iii 45–49; for obv. ii´, see text no. 197 rev. 14b–21 and text no. 133 rev. 7b–14, and compare text no. 7 (Prism Kh) ix 1´´–8´´, text no. 8 (Prism G) x 10´–16´, text no. 9 (Prism F) iii 62–75, and text no. 11 (Prism A) v 11–30; and for rev. i, compare text no. 9 (Prism F) v 73–vi 8a, text no. 10 (Prism T) v 10b–27, and text no. 11 (Prism A) vi 108–119. The terminus post quem for the inscription is Ashurbanipal's fifth Elamite campaign in 646.
A fragment from one face of a clay tablet that preserves parts of seven lines of text probably contains an inscription of Ashurbanipal. The reference to the goddesses Nanāya, Uṣur-amāssa, (and) Urkayītu (although the names of the first two deities are restored) suggests that the text probably contained some type of description of the king's fifth Elamite campaign and the return of Nanāya's statue from Susa to the Eanna temple complex at Uruk in 646. These three goddesses appear together in inscriptions destined for objects in Uruk — most likely for Nanāya's cella Eḫiliana ("House of the Luxuriance of Heaven") in the Eanna complex — (text nos. 236 and probably 234) and in Cutha (text nos. 227–228). The present inscription is tentatively edited here with the Uruk inscriptions, as that city is probably the more likely original location for this text.
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A small flake from one face of a clay tablet almost certainly preserves part of an inscription of Ashurbanipal. Although hardly anything remains of the tablet's contents, the reference to the goddesses Nanāya, Uṣur-amāssa, (and) Urkayītu suggest that the text probably contained some type of report on the king's fifth Elamite campaign and the return of the statue of Nanāya from Susa to the temple Eanna ("House of Heaven"), the temple complex of the goddess Ištar at Uruk, in 646. Moreover, the mention of Uruk at the end of what is likely the tablet's subscript makes it clear that the inscription was to be written on an object destined for that city, and with the specific mention of these three goddesses, most likely for Nanāya's cella Eḫiliana ("House of the Luxuriance of Heaven") in that temple complex.
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This flake preserves parts of two narrow columns from the reverse of a tablet. Given the fairly short length of the lines on rev. i´, the tablet probably contained more than two columns of text on each face.
Joshua Jeffers & Jamie Novotny
Joshua Jeffers & Jamie Novotny, 'Tablets Related to Uruk (text nos. 232-236)', 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/TabletsrelatedtoUruktexts232-236/]