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 Libbali-sarrat, as well as his sons and successors Assur-etel-ilani and Sin-sarra-iskun-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, Assur-etel-ilani, and Sin-sarra-iskun; indexes of museum and excavation numbers and selected publications; and indexes of proper names. Expertly prepared by three leading philologists, this eagerly awaited work will be a key reference for Assyriologists, Near Eastern historians, biblical scholars, and scholars of ancient languages for decades to come.
Jamie Novotny is a tenured Researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Codirector of the Munich Open-Access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative, and Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire Project. Among his recent publications are The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC), Assur-etel-ilani (630-627 BC) and Sin-sarra-iskun (626-612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1 and Part 2, also published by Eisenbrauns. Joshua Jeffers is Lecturer in Akkadian Language at the University of Pennsylvania and Research Specialist for the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project. He is the coauthor, with Jamie Novotny, of The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668-631 BC), Assur-etel-ilani (630-627 BC), and Sin-sarra-iskun (626-612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1 and Part 2. Grant Frame is Professor Emeritus of Assyriology and former Director of the Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Curator Emeritus of the Penn Museum's Babylonian Collection, and founder of the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, including The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721-705 BC) and Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE: Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Philadelphia, July 11-15, 2016, also published by Eisenbrauns.
