Ashurnasirpal II 070


Obverse
11	É.GAL ^mAŠ-PAP-A MAN ŠÚ	(1) Palace of Ashurnasirpal (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Tukultī-Ninurta (II), king of Assyria, son of Adad-nārārī (II), (who was) also king of Assyria; the conqueror of all lands (who) made (all rulers) from east to west bow down at his feet:
22	MAN KUR AŠ A TUKUL-MAŠ MAN KUR AŠ
33	A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KUR AŠ-ma
44	ka-šid KUR.MEŠ DÙ-ši-na
55	TA ^dUTU.È EN ^dUTU.ŠÚ.A
66	ana GÌR.MEŠ-šú ú-šak-ni-šú
77	É.GAL URU.ap-ki	(7) (As for) the palace of the city Apku, I laid its foundations for the residence of my royal majesty, (together) with tablets of silver (and) gold.
88	ana šu-bat MAN-ti-a ina ṭup-pi
99	KÙ.BABBAR KÙ.GI UŠ₈-šá ŠUB
1010	NUN EGIR-u MU SAR	(10) O future ruler, do not erase (my) inscribed name! (The god) Aššur, the great lord, will (then) listen to your (text: “his”) prayers.
1111	NU ta-pa-šiṭ AŠ EN GAL
1212	ŠÙD-šú ŠE.GA šá MU	(12b) As for the one who erases (my) inscribed name (and) uses these ceremonial inscriptions of mine for his own ends, may (the god) Aššur, the great lord, smash his weapon(s), take away from him his throne, (and) make his name (and) his seed disappear from the land.
1313	SAR i-pa-ši-ṭu
1414	NA.RÚ.A-a šú-a-tú
1515	ana šip-ri šá ŠÀ-šú DÙ-šú
1616	AŠ EN GAL GIŠ.TUKUL-šú liš-ber
1717	GIŠ.AŠ.TI-šú KAR-šú MU-šú
1818	NUMUN-šú ina KUR lu-ZÁḪ

Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC) (RIMA 2), Toronto, 1991. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016-17) for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q004524/.