Assyrian Inscriptions

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Only a handful of inscriptions are known for Ashurbanipal's son and immediate successor Aššur-etel-ilāni; more texts of his are attested from Babylonia than from Assyria. The inscriptions are found on bricks, a clay cylinders, and clay tablets. All but one is written in the Standard Babylonian dialect of Akkadian; a brick inscription discovered at Nippur is composed in Sumerian. Several of the inscriptions provide details about his building activities and support of temples, and one text records that he had the remains of an earlier Chaldean ruler returned from Assyria to its proper place in Bīt-Dakkūri. Aššur-etel-ilāni is known to have sponsored building on or donated inscribed objects to the temples E-ibbi-Anum (Dilbat), Esagil (Babylon), Ezida (Kalḫu), and Ekur (Nippur), and Eešerke (Sippar-Aruru).

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Numerous bricks are inscribed with a short Akkadian inscription stating that Aššur-etel-ilāni had bricks made for rebuilding the temple of the god Nabû at Kalḫu (Ezida; "True House"). As one generally excepts from brick inscriptions, no details about the project are recorded in the text.

Access the composite text [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/Q003856/] of Aššur-etel-ilāni 1.

Sources: (1) BM 090184 (1979-12-20, 0100)     (2) BM 090185 (1979-12-20, 0101)     (3) BM 090186 (1979-12-20, 0102)
(4) BM 090187 (1979-12-20, 0103)     (5) BM 090188 (1979-12-20, 0104)     (6) BM 090189 (1979-12-20, 0105)
(7) BM 090190 (1979-12-20, 0106)     (8) BM 090191 (1979-12-20, 0107)     (9) BM 090192 (1979-12-20, 0108)
(10) BM 090193 (1979-12-20, 0109)     (11) BM 090194 (1979-12-20, 0110)     (12) BM 090195 (1979-12-20, 0111)
(13) BM 090196 (1979-12-20, 0112)     (14) BM 090197 (1979-12-20, 0113)     (15) BM 090198 (1979-12-20, 0114)
(16) BM 090199 (1979-12-20, 0115)     (17) BM 090706 (1979-12-20, 0314)     (18) BM 090725 (1979-12-20, 0326)
(19) BM 090741 (1979-12-20, 0332)

Bibliography

1861 1 R pl. 8 no. 3 (copy)

1916 Streck, Asb. pp. CXCIX and 380 (edition)

1927 Luckenbill, ARAB 2 §1130-1131 (translation)

1967 Borger, HKL 2 p. 522 (study)

1981 Walker, CBI no. 190 (exs. 1-19, transliteration, variants)

1992 J. Oates, CAH² 3/2 p. 172 (study)

1998 Brinkman, in PNA 1/1 p. 183 (study)

2009 Novotny and Van Buylaere, Studies Oded p. 234 (translation, study)

Jamie Novotny

Jamie Novotny, 'Assyrian Inscriptions', 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/rinap52and53/ashuretelilani/assyrianinscriptions/]

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