Eleven pieces of clay are impressed with two different stamp seals of Ashurbanipal, both bearing the same proprietary inscription of the king. These royal seals are presently known only from their impressions.
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Exs. 1–3 were impressed with one seal, while exs. 4–11 were stamped with a second seal. The diameters of seals are 1.75 cm and 1.85 cm respectively. Some dockets are impressed once (exs. 1–2, 4–5, and 10), while others are stamped two (ex. 11), five (exs. 3, 6–7, and 9) or six (ex. 8) times. None of the impressions preserve a complete copy of the text. Contrary to A.R. Millard, the AŠ sign in Sennacherib's title (MAN AŠ-ma "(who was also) king of Assyria") is preserved (on ex. 3). The present edition is a conflation all known exemplars and no score is provided on Oracc since the text is a seal impression.
A clay docket from Nineveh is impressed with a third stamp seal of Ashurbanipal; the seal used to make the impression has not yet been discovered. Only traces of the beginning of the inscription are preserved.
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A small clay docket is impressed with a fourth inscribed stamp seal of a late Neo-Assyrian king, most likely Ashurbanipal; however, an attribution to Esarhaddon is also possible. The text, written in mirror writing, is here divided into four lines. The fact that the end of the final line runs into the king's crown may suggest that the inscription was added later, as an afterthought. The original seal has not yet been discovered. The attribution to Ashurbanipal and the proposed restorations follow A.R. Millard.
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Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers
Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers, 'Inscriptions on Seals (text nos. 65-67)', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/rinap51textintroductions/sealstexts6567/]