Aššur-etel-ilāni Babylonian 1
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o 11 | [a-na dAMAR].⸢UTU? kab⸣-tu šit-ra-ḫu dEN.LÍL DINGIR.MEŠ šá-qu-ú | (1) [To the god] Marduk, venerable, splendid, the Enlil of the gods, most exalted of [the] gods, the one who directs all of the gods (and) holds the link between the Igīgū- [and] Anunnakū-gods, commander, honored god, king of the totality of heaven and netherworld, at whose mention the great gods fearfully attend his command, |
o 22 | [e-li DINGIR].MEŠ a-⸢šir⸣ DINGIR.MEŠ ka-la-me mu-kil mar-kas dí-gì-gì | |
o 33 | [ù da]-⸢nun⸣-na-ki mu-ma-ʾe-er DINGIR ku-na LUGAL ŠÚ AN-e ù KI-tim1 | |
o 44 | ⸢šá? a?-na? zik⸣-ri-šú DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ pal-ḫiš ú-taq-qu-ú qí-bit-su | |
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o 55 | šaḫ-tú la-a-nu ši-i-ḫu šá ina ZU.AB ir-bu-ú bal-ti šur-ru-ḫu | (5) respectful, large of stature, one who grew up in the Watery Abyss (apsû), (whose) dignity is splendid, (whose) body is superior, (and whose) features are perfect, most capable of all (of the gods), one who knows everything, understands the will of the Watery Abyss, (and) comprehends the secret(s) of the lalgar, lord of Babylon, one who dwells in Esagil, great lord, lord of the universe: |
o 66 | mì-na-a-ta šu-tu-ru ṣu-ub-bu-ú nab-ni-ti le-eʾ-um | |
o 77 | le-eʾ-ú-tu mu-du-ú ka-la-me la-mid ṭè-em ZU.AB | |
o 88 | a-ḫi-iz pi-riš-ti làl-gar EN KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI2 | |
o 99 | a-šib é-sag-íl EN GAL-ú EN ŠÚ mAN.ŠÁR-e-tel-li-DINGIR.MEŠ | (9b) Aššur-etel-ilāni, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, in order to ensure his good heath, so that his prayers be heard, and to overthrow his enemies presented (this) table of musukkannu-wood, a durable wood, which is mounted with red ṣāriru-gold ... artistically made by the skill of craftsmen, (and) suitable for the fitting things of pure food offerings. |
o 1010 | LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR-AN.ŠÁR.KI GIŠ.BANŠUR GIŠ.MES.MÁ.KAN.NA | |
o 1111 | iṣ-ṣi da-ru-ú ⸢šá ṣa⸣-ri-ri ḪUŠ.A uḫ-ḫu-zu | |
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r 1212 | ŠÁ NU KÁT MAŠ x | |
r 1313 | [i]-⸢na⸣ ši-pir DUMU.ME um-⸢ma⸣-nu nak-liš šu-pu-šú a-na si-ma-a-ta | |
r 1414 | ⸢ma-ka-le⸣-e KÙ.ME šu-lu-ku a-na TIN ZI.MEŠ-šú še-me-e | |
r 1515 | su-pe-e-šú sa-kap LÚ.KÚR.MEŠ-šú BA-ìš | |
r 1616 | dAMAR.UTU EN GAL-ú (erasure) GIŠ.BANŠUR šu-a-ti | (16) O god Marduk, great lord, when you look upon this table with pleasure, (and) when (this) table is set (and) regular, ceaseless offerings are presented, may the god Šulpaea, the lord of the table, speak well of Aššur-etel-ilāni, king of Assyria (and) your favorite ruler, before you! |
r 1717 | ḫa-diš ina nap-lu-si-ka dšul-pa-è-a EN GIŠ.BANŠUR | |
r 1818 | ina ra-kas GIŠ.BANŠUR šá-rak sur-qin-nu ka-a-a-an la na-par-ka-a | |
r 1919 | a-mat MUNUS.SIG₅ mAN.ŠÁR-e-tel-li-DINGIR.ME LUGAL KUR-AN.ŠÁR.KI | |
r 2020 | NUN mi-gir lìb-bi-ka lit-tas-qar ma-ḫar-ka | |
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r 2121 | 2 SÌLA 3 šal-šú NINDA SISKUR 1 (PI) 1 (BÁN) GIŠ.PÈŠ ḪÁD.A ina maš-šar-ti šá ITI.DU₆3 | (21) Two qû (and) the three and one-third akalu (as) offerings; one pānu (and) one sūtu of dried figs from the maššartu-deliveries of the month Tašrītu. Nādin, son of Bēl-aḫḫē-iqīša. |
r 2222 | mna-din A mdEN-PAP.ME-BA-šá ITI.KIN UD.11.KÁM MU.3.KÁM | (22b) Ulūlu (VI), eleventh day, third year. |
1The translation takes ku-na to be from kunnu, “honored,” although one would expect ku-un-nu-ú.
2CAD L p. 47 describes lalgar as “cosmic subterranean water.”
3Two qû and three and one-third akalu are equivalent to approximately two and one-third liters. One pānu and one sūtu are equivalent to approximately forty-two liters (assuming a sūtu of 6 qû, see Powell, RLA 7/7–8 p. 498 §IV.7).
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/Q003857/.