This second volume of Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny's new and updated editio princeps of the inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal provides reliable, up-to-date editions of 169 historical inscriptions of this seventh-century BC ruler, including all such texts known from clay tablets and presumed from Kuyunjik, the citadel mound of the Assyrian capital Nineveh. Each text edition is presented with an English translation, a brief introduction, a catalogue of basic information about all attested exemplars, a commentary on further technical information and notes, and a comprehensive bibliography. This volume includes a general introduction to sources edited in the volume, a study of Ashurbanipal's building activities in Assyria, photographs of tablets inscribed with texts of Ashurbanipal, indices of museum and excavation numbers and selected publications, and indices of proper names.

Prepared by a pair of highly qualified philologists and historians, this modern scholarly edition is the first to translate into English all the presently known inscriptions of Ashurbanipal written on clay tablets. It will be a key reference for Assyriologists for decades to come.

About the Author

Joshua Jeffers is a research specialist for the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project and Lecturer in Akkadian Language at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC), Assur-etel-ilani (630-627 BC), and Sin-sarra-iskun (626-612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1, also published by Eisenbrauns.

Jamie Novotny is tenured academic researcher of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Codirector of the Munich Open-Access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative, and Editor-in-Chief of the RINBE project. He is the author, editor, or coauthor of several books, including The Royal Inscriptions of Amel-Marduk (561-560 BC), Neriglissar (559-556 BC), and Nabonidus (555-539 BC), Kings of Babylon, also published by Eisenbrauns.

Book Information
ISBN 9781646022236
Author Joshua Jeffers
Format Hardback
Page Count 424
Imprint Eisenbrauns
Publisher Pennsylvania State University Press
Weight(grams) 1361g
Dimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 36mm