Aššur-etel-ilāni 04
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11 | a-na duraš EN MAḪ SAG.KAL DINGIR.ME GAL.ME é-i-bí-da-num BÁRA ra-aš-bu EN GAL-u EN-šú mAN.ŠAR₄-NIR.GÁL-DINGIR.ME MAN KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI | (1a) For the god Uraš, exalted lord, foremost of the great gods of E-ibbi-Anum — the shrine (which is) worthy of honor — great lord, his lord: |
22 | mu-ud-diš BÁRA DINGIR.ME GAL.MEŠ <<GAL.ME>> DUMU m⸢AN⸣.ŠÁR-DÙ-A MAN KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI SIPA ṣal-mat SAG.DU é-i-bí-da-num áš-ri el-lu | (2b) Aššur-etel-ilāni, king of Assyria, who renovated the shrine(s) of the great gods, son of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, shepherd of the black-headed, renovated E-ibbi-Anum, the holy place which is inside Dilbat, the abode of the god Uraš and the goddess Ninegal. He built (it) anew with baked bricks, the craft of the god Baḫar and, with regard to the foundation of the well, he (re-)established its position just as (it had been) in ancient times. |
33 | šá qé-reb dil-bat.KI šu-bat duraš u dnin-é-⸢gal⸣ uš-šiš a-gur-ru pi-ti-iq dbáḫar eš-šiš ib-ni-ma SUḪUŠ PÚ KI-šú1 | |
44 | ki-i pi-i la-bi-ri-im-ma ú-kin ⸢a-na⸣ du-ur u₄-me zu-mur PÚ MU.MEŠ GIM ÍD.IDIGNA u ÍD.<BURANUN> ub-bi-ib-ma | (4b) He cleaned this entire well for all time (in order to make its water as pure) as (that of) the Tigris and <Euphrates> Rivers, and (5) he established its water for the meals of the great gods. That water should be brought every day in good time for (their) meals. May they say good things about Aššur-etel-ilāni, the king, their favorite, to the deities Nabû, Marduk, Uraš, and Ninegal, who dwell in that temple (so that) his reign may be long! |
55 | ana nap-ta-nu DINGIR.ME GAL.MEŠ ú-kin A.⸢MEŠ⸣ šu-nu-te₉-e-ma a-na nap-ta-nu uš-taḫ-ma-ṭu u₄-mi-šam ana dAG2 | |
66 | dAMAR.UTU duraš u dnin-é-gal a-ši-bu ⸢qé-reb⸣ É MU*.ME SIG₅-tim mAN.ŠÁR-NIR.GÁL-DINGIR.ME* MAN mi-gir-šú-un li-iq-bu-u li-ri-ik BALA-šú |
1Baḫar was the god of potters.
2The understanding of the passage follows a suggestion by J.N. Postgate.
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 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/rinap/Q003859/.