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Assyria’s last great king Assurbanipal invested much time and effort ensuring that his accomplishments both on and off the battlefield were immortalized as he wished to his gods and subjects, foreign rulers and dignitaries, future kings of Assyria, and future generations of Assyrians. Numerous royal inscriptions and sculpted stone orthostats are a testament to the large number of scribes and artists involved in the creation and masterful reworking of his image as a warrior without equal, a fearless lion hunter, a well-educated and literate ruler, and a devoted supporter of religious institutions. This selection of Assurbanipal’s inscriptions presents for the first time full editions of the prism inscriptions I and T and new editions of several important texts written on clay tablets from the library collections at Nineveh. These texts describe Assurbanipal’s youth and education, military campaigns against Egypt and Elam, the return of Marduk’s statue to Babylon, and the building and decoration of numerous temples and sanctuaries in Assyrian and Babylonian cities.Like the rest of the SAACT series, the volume is primarily intended as a teaching aid and is ideal for both classroom teaching and for self-study. Besides providing an introduction to the inscriptions of Assurbanipal and an appealing alternative to the “Annals of Sennacherib,” it now makes it possible, for example, for first time to read Assurbanipal’s famous “School Days Inscription” (L4) in class. Each text is presented both in cuneiform and in transliteration with fresh English translations. Moreover, the book includes a list of logograms and their readings, an Akkadian glossary, an index of personal, geographical and divine names, and a sign list, everything needed to read these important Assyrian compositions.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. --- Akkadian language --- Inscriptions cunéiformes akkadiennes --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Texts --- Textes --- Ashurbanipal, --- Cuneiform inscriptions. --- Assyria --- History --- Inscriptions cunéiformes akkadiennes --- Cuneiform inscriptions --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Ashurbanipal, - King of Assyria, - active 668 B.C.-627 B.C. --- Assyria - History - Sources

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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.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Akkadian language --- Ashurbanipal, --- Assur-etal-ilani, --- Sin-sarra-iskun, --- Assyria --- History --- Kings and rulers --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. --- Akkadian language. --- Kings and rulers. --- Middle East --- (As)Syria. --- Texts --- Sources. --- Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions --- Sin-šarru-iškun, --- Sinsharishkun, --- Sin-šar-iškun, --- Aššur-etel-ilani, --- Ashur-etil-ilani, --- Aššur-etil-ilāni, --- Aššur-Nacir-Aplia, --- Asurbanipal, --- Assurbanipal, --- Sardanapal, --- Assur (Kingdom) --- Asshur (Kingdom) --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Ashurbanipal, - King of Assyria, - active 668 B.C.-627 B.C. --- Assur-etal-ilani, - King of Assyria, - active 630 B.C.-627 B.C. --- Sin-sarra-iskun, - King of Assyria, - active 626 B.C.-612 B.C. --- Assyria - History - Sources --- Assyria - Kings and rulers

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Amēl-Marduk (561-560 BC), Neriglissar (559-556 BC), and Nabonidus (555-539 BC) were the last native kings of Babylon. In this modern scholarly edition of the complete extant corpus of royal inscriptions from each of their reigns, Frauke Weiershäuser and Jamie Novotny provide updated and reliable editions of the texts.The kings of the Neo-Babylonian Empire left hundreds of official inscriptions on objects such as clay cylinders, bricks, paving stones, vases, and stelae. These writings, ranging from lengthy narratives enumerating the deeds of a monarch to labels identifying a ruler as the builder of a given structure, supplement and inform our understanding of the empire. Beginning with a historical introduction to the reigns of these three kings and the corpus of inscriptions, Weiershäuser and Novotny then present each text with an introduction, a photograph of the inscribed object, the Akkadian text in a newly collated transliteration, an English translation, catalogue data, commentary, and an updated bibliography. Additionally, Weiershäuser and Novotny provide new translations of several related Akkadian texts and chronicles.Featuring meticulous yet readable transliterations and translations that have been carefully collated with the originals, this book will be the standard edition for scholars and students of Assyriology, the Neo-Babylonian dialect, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire for decades to come.

Amel-Marduk, --- Neriglissar, --- Nabonidus, --- Babylonia --- History --- Kings and rulers.

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"Presents the text and English translation of seventy-one inscriptions of the Babylonian kings Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II with historical and technical commentary, as well as a catalog of all exemplars and a comprehensive bibliography"--

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. --- Akkadian language --- Inscriptions akkadiennes. --- Rois et souverains --- Nabopolassar, --- Nebuchadnezzar --- Nabopolassar --- Nabuchodonosor --- Babylonia --- Babylonia --- Babylone (Iraq ; ville ancienne) --- History --- Kings and rulers. --- Histoire