Description:
A collection of updated English editions and translations of 169 historical inscriptions of Ashurbanipal, including all historical inscriptions on clay tablets from Kuyunjik, the citadel mound of Nineveh.
Brief description: Jamie Novotny is tenured academic researcher of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Codirector of the Munich Open-Access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative, and Editor-in-Chief of the RINBE project. He is the author, editor, or coauthor of several books, including The Royal Inscriptions of Amēl-Marduk (561-560 BC), Neriglissar (559-556 BC), and Nabonidus (555-539 BC), Kings of Babylon, also published by Eisenbrauns.
Review Quotes:
"This new volume of Ashurbanipal's inscriptions, with its ordered, revised, and improved comprehensive presentation of the texts, will ease the work of philologists and historians who deal with this crucial documentation and the placement of royal inscriptions within a complex system of communication with which various concordances are available."
--S. Ponchia, Archiv für Orientforschung