Inscriptions on Stone Bull Colossi (text no. 64)

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The backs of a human-headed bull colossus and a stone slab discovered at Nebi Yunus by Iraqi excavators between 1987 and 1992 are inscribed with an identical four-line proprietary label of Ashurbanipal.

Access the composite text [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/Q003763/] of Ashurbanipal 64.

Sources: (1-2) al-Juboori, Iraq 79 fig. 14a-b

Commentary

Ex. 1 is inscribed on the back of a human-headed bull, while ex. 2 is written on the back of a stone slab. Several inscriptions of Ashurbanipal record that he worked on the armory, but these two inscribed objects provide some proof of those claims.

Bibliography

2017 al-Juboori, Iraq 79 p. 11 and p. 12 figs. 14a–b (exs. 1–2, copy, edition)

Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers

Jamie Novotny & Joshua Jeffers, 'Inscriptions on Stone Bull Colossi (text no. 64)', 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/stonebullcolossitext64/]

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