Joshua Jeffers
University of Pennsylvania, NELC, PhD, Faculty Member
- Lecturer of Akkadian and Biblical Hebrewedit
A web version of the book is currently accessible at http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/index.html and http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/pager. This is the final installment in a tripartite critical edition of the... more
A web version of the book is currently accessible at http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/index.html and http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/pager. This is the final installment in a tripartite critical edition of the inscriptions of the last major Neo-Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal, and the members of his family. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 5/3 provides reliable, up-to-date editions and English translations of 106 historical inscriptions written in the Akkadian and Sumerian languages. These inscriptions account for all certainly identifiable and positively attributable inscriptions of Ashurbanipal discovered in Babylonia, in the East Tigris Region, and outside of the Assyrian Empire, together with inscriptions of some members of Ashurbanipal’s family—his wife Libbāli-šarrat, as well as his sons and successors Aššur-etel-ilāni and Sîn-šarra-iškun—and loyal officials. Each text edition is accompanied by an English translation, brief introduction, catalogue of exemplars, commentary, and bibliography. In addition to a critical introduction to the sources, RINAP 5/3 also includes relevant studies of various aspects of Ashurbanipal’s reign and the final years of the Assyrian Empire; translations of the “Chronicle Concerning the Early Years of Nabopolassar” and the “Fall of Nineveh Chronicle”; photographs of objects inscribed with texts of Ashurbanipal, Aššur-etel-ilāni, and Sîn-šarra-iškun; indexes of museum and excavation numbers and selected publications; and indexes of proper names.
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Near Eastern Studies, Assyriology, Mesopotamia History, and 15 moreAkkadian Language, Ancient Near East, Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Akkadian, Assyria, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Sumerian & Akkadian literature, Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian studies, Ancient Near Eastern History, History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Ashurbanipal, Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and Akkadian and Sumerian literature
A web version of the book at http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/index.html and http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/pager. This second volume of Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny’s new and updated editio princeps of the inscriptions of the... more
A web version of the book at http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/index.html and http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap5/pager.
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.
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.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Near Eastern Archaeology, Near Eastern Studies, Assyriology, Mesopotamia History, and 15 moreAncient Near East, Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Akkadian, Assyria, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Sumerian & Akkadian literature, Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian studies, Ancient Near Eastern History, History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Ashurbanipal, Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Northern Mesopotamia, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/index.html In this book, Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers provide updated, reliable editions of seventy-one historical inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, including all historical inscriptions on clay... more
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap5/index.html
In this book, Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers provide updated, reliable editions of seventy-one historical inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, including all historical inscriptions on clay prisms, clay cylinders, wall slabs, and other stone objects from Nineveh, Assur, and Kalhu. Each text edition is accompanied by an English translation, a catalog of all exemplars, a comprehensive bibliography, and commentary containing notes and technical information. This volume also contains a general introduction to the reign of Ashurbanipal, his military campaigns, the corpus of inscriptions, previous studies, and chronology; translations of the relevant passages of several Mesopotamian chronicles and king lists; photographs of objects inscribed with texts of Ashurbanipal; indexes of museum and excavation numbers, selected publications, and proper names.
In this book, Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers provide updated, reliable editions of seventy-one historical inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, including all historical inscriptions on clay prisms, clay cylinders, wall slabs, and other stone objects from Nineveh, Assur, and Kalhu. Each text edition is accompanied by an English translation, a catalog of all exemplars, a comprehensive bibliography, and commentary containing notes and technical information. This volume also contains a general introduction to the reign of Ashurbanipal, his military campaigns, the corpus of inscriptions, previous studies, and chronology; translations of the relevant passages of several Mesopotamian chronicles and king lists; photographs of objects inscribed with texts of Ashurbanipal; indexes of museum and excavation numbers, selected publications, and proper names.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Near Eastern Studies, Assyriology, Mesopotamia History, Akkadian Language, and 15 moreAncient Near East, Babylon, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Sumerian & Akkadian literature, Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian studies, Assyrian Studies, Ashurbanipal, Esarhaddon, Ancient Mesopotamia, Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Northern Mesopotamia, Nimrud, Nineveh, and Anceint Near Eastern Studies
Ashurbanipal’s Prism F inscription contains numerous variant traditions among its individual exemplars. In an article published in 1977, M. Cogan classified the more significant variants as independent recensions of the inscription.... more
Ashurbanipal’s Prism F inscription contains numerous variant traditions among its individual exemplars. In an article published in 1977, M. Cogan classified the more significant variants as independent recensions of the inscription. However, a reexamination of his seven recensional classes shows that there is in fact only one major recension of this inscription besides the main version of the text, with a few exemplars preserving two additional variant traditions in one episode. Furthermore, with respect to Prism F’s compositional history, an examination of this major recension suggests that it may have been the first version of the Prism F inscription that was then edited to become the main version of the text.
Scholars generally assume that Assyria employed a luni-solar calendrical system during the Middle Assyrian period—akin to the one used in Babylonia—that kept the months of its year synchronized with the seasons of the solar year through... more
Scholars generally assume that Assyria employed a luni-solar calendrical system during the Middle Assyrian period—akin to the one used in Babylonia—that kept the months of its year synchronized with the seasons of the solar year through periodic intercalation. With this understanding, the regnal dates assigned to the Middle Assyrian kings have traditionally been expressed in terms of solar years. The present article, however, argues that the Assyrians did not use this type of system. The author draws upon a variety of administrative tablets—primarily from the reigns of Shalmaneser I, Tukultī-Ninurta I, and Tiglath-pileser I—to demonstrate that the months of the Assyrian year were in fact not permanently affixed to particular seasons of the solar year, revealing that its year was not intercalated and was thus perpetually rotating slowly through the solar year. This article also explores how such a calendrical system impacts the Middle Assyrian kings’ regnal dates, which would need to be lowered given that the unadjusted Assyrian lunar year was slightly shorter than its solar counterpart.
Scholars had once assumed that all of the relief programmes in Sennacherib’s “Palace Without Rival” at Nineveh depicted events solely from his first three military campaigns. In 1994, however, E. Frahm successfully reconstructed a heavily... more
Scholars had once assumed that all of the relief programmes in Sennacherib’s “Palace Without Rival” at Nineveh depicted events solely from his first three military campaigns. In 1994, however, E. Frahm successfully reconstructed a heavily damaged epigraph from the throne room specifically identifying the city of Ukku as the topic of the relief programme on Slabs 1–4 of this room’s western wall. We know from Sennacherib’s annals that Ukku was a target of the king’s fifth campaign, aimed at enemies to the north of the Assyrian heartland in the Zagros mountain range. I have therefore re-examined the palace reliefs in order to identify other fifth-campaign programmes that have previously been overlooked. In this article, I argue that Rooms XXXVIII and XLVIII, in addition to the images on the western wall of the throne room, contain representations of Sennacherib’s fifth campaign. With this identification substantiated, I then explore the typological aspects of these fifth-campaign programmes to classify their visual features.
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/ Numerous royally commissioned texts were composed between 744 BC and 609 BC, a period during which Assyria became the dominant power in southwestern Asia. Eight hundred and fifty to nine hundred such... more
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/
Numerous royally commissioned texts were composed between 744 BC and 609 BC, a period during which Assyria became the dominant power in southwestern Asia. Eight hundred and fifty to nine hundred such inscriptions are known today. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, under the direction of Professor Grant Frame of the University of Pennsylvania, will publish in print and online all of the known royal inscriptions that were composed during the reigns of the Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC), Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Sargon II (721-705 BC), Sennacherib (704-681 BC), Esarhaddon (680-669 BC), Ashurbanipal (668-ca. 631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (ca. 631-627/626 BC), Sîn-šumu-līšir (627/626 BC), Sîn-šarra-iškun (627/626-612 BC), and Aššur-uballiṭ II (611-609 BC), rulers whose deeds were also recorded in the Bible and in some classical sources. The individual texts range from short one-line labels to lengthy, detailed inscriptions with over 1200 lines (4000 words) of text. These Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions (744-609 BC) represent only a small, but important part of the vast Neo-Assyrian text corpus. They are written in the Standard Babylonian dialect of Akkadian and provide valuable insight into royal exploits, both on the battlefield and at home, royal ideology, and Assyrian religion. Most of our understanding of the political history of Assyria, and to some extent of Babylonia, comes from these sources. Because this large corpus of texts has not previously been published in one place, the RINAP Project will provide up-to-date editions (with English translations) of Assyrian royal inscriptions from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) to the reign of Aššur-uballiṭ II (611-609 BC) in seven print volumes and online, in a fully lemmatized and indexed format. The aim of the project is to make this vast text corpus easily accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. RINAP Online will allow those interested in Assyrian culture, history, language, religion, and texts to efficiently search Akkadian and Sumerian words appearing in the inscriptions and English words
Numerous royally commissioned texts were composed between 744 BC and 609 BC, a period during which Assyria became the dominant power in southwestern Asia. Eight hundred and fifty to nine hundred such inscriptions are known today. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, under the direction of Professor Grant Frame of the University of Pennsylvania, will publish in print and online all of the known royal inscriptions that were composed during the reigns of the Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC), Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Sargon II (721-705 BC), Sennacherib (704-681 BC), Esarhaddon (680-669 BC), Ashurbanipal (668-ca. 631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (ca. 631-627/626 BC), Sîn-šumu-līšir (627/626 BC), Sîn-šarra-iškun (627/626-612 BC), and Aššur-uballiṭ II (611-609 BC), rulers whose deeds were also recorded in the Bible and in some classical sources. The individual texts range from short one-line labels to lengthy, detailed inscriptions with over 1200 lines (4000 words) of text. These Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions (744-609 BC) represent only a small, but important part of the vast Neo-Assyrian text corpus. They are written in the Standard Babylonian dialect of Akkadian and provide valuable insight into royal exploits, both on the battlefield and at home, royal ideology, and Assyrian religion. Most of our understanding of the political history of Assyria, and to some extent of Babylonia, comes from these sources. Because this large corpus of texts has not previously been published in one place, the RINAP Project will provide up-to-date editions (with English translations) of Assyrian royal inscriptions from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) to the reign of Aššur-uballiṭ II (611-609 BC) in seven print volumes and online, in a fully lemmatized and indexed format. The aim of the project is to make this vast text corpus easily accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. RINAP Online will allow those interested in Assyrian culture, history, language, religion, and texts to efficiently search Akkadian and Sumerian words appearing in the inscriptions and English words
Research Interests: Ancient History, Digital Humanities, Assyriology, Iraqi History, Akkadian Language, and 15 moreAncient Near East, Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Sumerian & Akkadian literature, Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian studies, Ashurbanipal, Esarhaddon, Ancient Mesopotamia, tiglath-pileser III, Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Sennacherib & Neo Assyrian Empire, Northern Mesopotamia, First Millennium BC, sargon II, and Assyriologie
Research Interests: Ancient History, Near Eastern Studies, Assyriology, Iraqi History, Akkadian Language, and 15 moreAncient Near East, Babylon, Old Babylonian period, Sumerology, Cuneiform, History and Archaeology of Assyria, Sumerian Language, Early Dynastic Sumer, Ancient Mesopotamia, Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Gudea, Third Millennium Mesopotamia, Uruk, Ur III period, Early Dynastic Period, and Hammurabi (King of Babylon)
Research Interests: Assyriology, Mesopotamia History, Akkadian Language, Ancient Near East, Ancient Near Eastern Languages, and 13 moreAkkadian, Assyria, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Cuneiform, Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian studies, Assyrian Studies, Ancient Near Eastern History, History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Ashurbanipal, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Royal ideology in the ancient Near East, and Neo Assyrians
Research Interests: Ancient History, Near Eastern Studies, Assyriology, Akkadian Language, Ancient Near East, and 15 moreAkkadian, Assyria, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Sumerian & Akkadian literature, Assyrian Empire, Neo-Assyrian studies, Assyrian Studies, Ancient Near Eastern History, History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Ashurbanipal, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Royal ideology in the ancient Near East, Akkadian and Sumerian literature, and Assyriologie
Scores of the Ashurbanipal inscriptions published in RINAP 5/1