Aššur-etel-ilāni Babylonian 2
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11 | (1) For the god Marduk, supreme lord, august hero, lord of lords, exalted, wh(ose) figure is splendid (and who) is vastly superior to all of the (other) gods, bearer of the awe-inspiring, terrible radiance, clothed in splendor, who drove [off] the god Kingu, defeated the angry sea, (and) overcame the evil ones, who dwells in Eešerke — which is inside Sippar-Aruru — great lord, his lord: | |
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88 | (8) Aššur-etel-ilāni, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, son of Ashurbanipal, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, had a scepter of red gold made which was (then) presented for his (Marduk’s) pure hands to grasp. He (Aššur-etel-ilāni) set (it) up forever inside Eešerke in order to ensure his good health, to prolong his days, to confirm his reign, to ensure the well-being of his descendant(s), to make his royal throne secure, (and) to ensure that his prayers are heard (and) his supplication(s) granted. | |
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1313 | GIN BALA.MEŠ-šú šá-lam NUMUN-šú šur-šú-du GIŠ.GU.ZA MAN-ti-šú | |
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1616 | (16) He established for (all) future days the freedom from taxation of those privileged to enter the temple, the collegium, those people, as many as there are, who look after his (Marduk’s) ways. | |
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1919 | (19) That which is (written) upon the gold scepter of the god Marduk. |
1The “sea” tam-tim, is the goddess Tiāmat, who, like her son and supporter Kingu (or Qingu), was defeated by Marduk in the Babylonian creation epic Enūma eliš.
2Instead of the singular form šuāte, one expects a plural form to modify UN.MEŠ, “people.”
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/Q003858/.