Ashurbanipal Babylonian 02
Obverse | ||
11 | mAN.ŠÁR-ba-a-ni-IBILA LUGAL x [...] | (1) Ashurbanipal, [great] king, [mighty king, king of the world], king
of Assyria, king of the [four] quarters (of the world), [king of kings],
prince who has no rival, who rules from [the Upper Sea to the] Lower [Sea] and
[has subjugated] all [rulers]; son of Esarhaddon, [great] king, [(mighty
king), (king of the world), (king of Assyria), (viceroy of Babylon)], king of
the land of Sumer and Akkad; [grand]son of |
22 | LUGAL KUR-aš-šur LUGAL kib-ra-a-⸢ti⸣ [...] | |
33 | ||
44 | šap-lit i-be-lu-ma gi-⸢mir⸣ [...] | |
55 | DUMU mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA LUGAL (x) [...] | |
66 | LUGAL KUR-EME.GI₇ u URI.KI DUMU [...] | |
77 | LUGAL ŠÁR LUGAL KUR-aš-šur a-na-ku-[ma ...] | (7b) [I completed the work on Esagil] which (my) father who had engendered me had not [finished. I (re)confirmed] the regular offerings for Esagil [and the gods of Babylon. I (re-)established] the privileged status of B[abylon (and) appointed Šamas-šuma-ukīn, my favorite brother, to the kingship of Babylon in order that the strong might not harm] the weak. |
88 | šá AD ba-nu-ú-a la ú-[qa-at-tu-u ...] | |
99 | sat-tuk-ki é-sag-íl [...] | |
1010 | ||
1111 | ||
Lacuna | ||
1'1' | MU.⸢SAR⸣-[u-a ...] | (1') [(But) as for the one who ... destroys my] royal ins[cription, or changes its position], may the god Ea, king of the Wat[ery Abyss (apsû), speak evil of him before the god Bēl (Marduk) (and) the goddess Bēltīya (Zarpanītu) and make] his name (and) his descendant(s) [disappear] from [the lands!] |
2'2' | dé-a LUGAL ⸢ap⸣-[si-i ...] | |
3'3' |
Based on Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC) (RIMB 2; Toronto, 1995). Digitized, lemmatized, and updated by Alexa Bartelmus, 2015-16, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based 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/ribo/Q003800/.