Survey of the Inscribed Objects Included in Part 3

The corpus of firmly identifiable inscriptions of Ashurbanipal and his successors Aššur-etel-ilāni and Sîn-šarra-iškun currently comprises 295 texts; a further 30 late Neo-Assyrian inscriptions which might be attributed to Ashurbanipal, although some very arbitrarily, are also edited here (Asb. 1001–1030). In addition, two texts are ascribed to his wife/wives, including a round-topped stele of Libbāli-šarrat (Asb. 2001), and sixteen are written in the name of a loyal official of his in Babylonia, Sîn-balāssu-iqbi, the governor of Ur. Inscriptions of Assyria's last rulers, including those edited in Parts 1 and 2, are presently found on a wide variety of clay, stone, and metal objects, specifically:

Object Type	Text No.
Clay prisms	Asb. 1–8, 9 (exs. 1–6, 8–28, 30–31, 33–34, 37–56, 58–95, 97–145, 148–153, 155–159, 162–163, 165–171, 173–203, 205–41*), 10–20; Ssi 7–9
Clay vertical cylinders	Asb. 9 (exs. 7, 29, 32, 35–36, 57, 96, 146–147, 154, 160–161, 164, 172, 204)
Clay tablets	Asb. 72–240, 255, 264, 1001–1029, 2002; Aei 2–3, 6 (ex. 2); Ssi 6, 15–18
Clay cylinders	Asb. 21, 241–245, 252–253, 258, 262–263, 265; Aei 6 (exs. 1, 3); Ssi 1–5, 10, 19
Clay cones/nails	Asb. 2004–2005; Ssi 11
Clay bulla	Ssi 20
Clay disks	Asb. 2006
Clay drum-shaped object	Asb. 2007
Bricks (including glazed bricks)	Asb. 71, 247–251, 256–257, 259–261, 2008–2018; Aei 1, 4–5; Ssi 13–14
Stone anthropomorphic statues	Asb. 63
Stone tablets	Asb. 61–62
Stone human-headed bull colossi	Asb. 64 (ex. 1)
Wall slabs (including slabs with reliefs)	Asb. 22–58, 64 (ex. 2)
Stone blocks and paving stones	Asb. 59–60; Ssi 12
Stone door sockets	Asb. 2003
Stone vessels (various types)	Asb. 68–70, 269; Ssi 21–2001
Small stone objects (including beads)	Asb. 266–268
Stamp seals (including impressions)	Asb. 65–67
Steles	Asb. 246, 254, 2001
Rock faces	Asb. 1030
Gold beaker	Asb. 270

Map showing cities in Babylonia and the East Tigris region where clay cylinders of Ashurbanipal have been discovered.

Jamie Novotny

Jamie Novotny, 'Survey of the Inscribed Objects Included in Part 3', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2023 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/rinap53introduction/surveyofinscribedobjects/]

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