Tarbiṣu

93 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap4/Q003322/]

A barrel cylinder discovered at Aššur contains an abbreviated summary of the events recounted on Nineveh text no. 1 (Nineveh A) and ends with a building account concerned with the construction of a palace for Ashurbanipal in Tarbiṣu, modern Sherif Khan not far from Nineveh. The inscription is edited with the Tarbiṣu texts, rather than those from Aššur, since its building report describes construction in that city. The text is dated to 18 Ayyāru (II) 672 BC. This text is commonly referred to as both Kalḫu A (Klch. A) and Tarbiṣu A (Trb. A).

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Source:

Ist EŞEM 06703 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P450495/] (Ass 01588 + Ass 01757a–b)

Commentary

Horizontal rulings separate each line. Lines 1–21 duplicate text no. 77 (Kalḫu A) lines 1–39. This text is dated to the same day as text no. 77 ex. 6 (Kalḫu A) and at least one copy of Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty (Parpola and Watanabe, SAA 2 pp. xi–xx and 58), within days of when the treaty itself had been enacted (Borger, BIWA p. 15).

Bibliography

1904 Andrae, MDOG 25 pp. 23 and 31–32 (provenance, study)

1905 Andrae, MDOG 27 p. 19 (study)

1927 Nassouhi, MAOG 3/1–2 pp. 22–32 (copy, edition)

1939–41 Weidner, AfO 13 p. 214 n. 66 (study)

1956 Borger, Asarh. pp. 32–33 §21 (Klch. A) and pp. 71–72 §43 (Trb. A) (edition)

1969 Oppenheim, ANET³ p. 290 no. b3 (7–8a, translation)

1982 Curtis and Grayson, Iraq 44 p. 92 (study)

1986 Pedersén, Archives 2 p. 13 n. 9 (study)

1993 Porter, Images, Power, and Politics p. 197 (study)

1997 Pedersén, Katalog p. 206 (study)

1999 Russell, Writing on the Wall pp. 151–152 (study)

94 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap4/Q003323/]

A worn and abraded stone slab from Tarbiṣu records that Esarhaddon had a palace built for his successor Ashurbanipal. This text, which is written on the bottom half of the slab, is commonly referred to as Tarbiṣu C (Trb. C).

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Source:

BM 118919 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P450496/] (1999-01-22, 0003)

Bibliography

1861 1 R pl. 48 no. 6 (copy)

1898 Meissner and Rost, BA 3 pp. 204–205 (edition)

1956 Borger, Asarh. p. 73 §45 (Trb. C) (edition)

1993 Porter, Images, Power, and Politics p. 197 (study)

1999 Russell, Writing on the Wall pp. 151–152 (translation, study)

95 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap4/Q003324/]

A worn and abraded concave stone slab from Tarbiṣu has an inscription stating that Esarhaddon built a palace in that city for Ashurbanipal, the heir designate of Assyria. This text is commonly referred to as Tarbiṣu B (Trb. B).

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Source:

BM 118920 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P450497/] (1999-01-22, 0004)

Bibliography

1861 1 R pl. 48 no. 5 (copy)

1898 Meissner and Rost, BA 3 pp. 204–207 (edition)

1927 Luckenbill, ARAB 2 p. 286 §758 (translation)

1956 Borger, Asarh. p. 72 §44 (Trb. B) (edition)

1993 Porter, Images, Power, and Politics p. 197 (study)

1999 Russell, Writing on the Wall pp. 151–152 (translation, study)

96 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap4/Q003325/]

Two bricks from Tarbiṣu bear a short inscription that states that Esarhaddon built a palace in that city. C.B.F. Walker collated the bricks. No score is provided on the CD-ROM. This text is commonly referred to as Tarbiṣu D (Trb. D).

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Sources [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P427874,P427875]:

(1) BM 090246 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P427874/] (1979–12–20, 0151) (2) BM 090247 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P427875/] (1979–12–20, 0152)

Bibliography

1861 1 R pl. 48 no. 8 (copy)

1898 Meissner and Rost, BA 3 pp. 204–205 (edition)

1922 BM Guide p. 73 nos. 297–298 (study)

1927 Luckenbill, ARAB 2 p. 286 §757 (translation)

1956 Borger, Asarh. p. 73 §46 (Trb. D) (edition)

1981 Walker, CBI p. 126 no. 187 (transliteration)

1993 Porter, Images, Power, and Politics p. 198 (edition)

Erle Leichty

Erle Leichty, 'Tarbiṣu', RINAP 4: Esarhaddon, The RINAP 4 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap4/rinap4textintroductions/tarbisu/]