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Only a handful of inscriptions are known for Ashurbanipal's son and immediate successor Aššur-etel-ilāni; more texts of his are attested from Babylonia than from Assyria. The inscriptions are found on bricks, a clay cylinders, and clay tablets. All but one is written in the Standard Babylonian dialect of Akkadian; a brick inscription discovered at Nippur is composed in Sumerian. Several of the inscriptions provide details about his building activities and support of temples, and one text records that he had the remains of an earlier Chaldean ruler returned from Assyria to its proper place in Bīt-Dakkūri. Aššur-etel-ilāni is known to have sponsored building on or donated inscribed objects to the temples E-ibbi-Anum (Dilbat), Esagil (Babylon), Ezida (Kalḫu), and Ekur (Nippur), and Eešerke (Sippar-Aruru).
Because work on The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1 is completed, the text numbers assigned to the inscriptions edited in that volume (Ashurbanipal texts 1-71) will not change. However, because work on Part 2 (Ashurbanipal texts 72-240) and Part 3 Ashurbanipal texts 241-2018, Aššur-etel-ilāni texts 1-6, and Sîn-šarra-iškun 1-21) are still very much works in progress, we kindly ask you to be patient with us and to bear in mind that the information included under the RINAP 5/2 and RINAP 5/3 tabs are far from complete and are subject to change. This is especially true of the text designations. This will be the case until the camera-ready manuscripts of RINAP 5/2 and RINAP 5/3 are sent to the publisher. Therefore, we urge caution should you cite the content of The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2 and Part 3.
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Jamie Novotny
Jamie Novotny, 'Inscriptions of Aššur-etel-ilāni', RINAP 5: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun, The RINAP/RINAP 5 Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2021 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/rinap52and53/ashuretelilani/]