Ashurbanipal 244


Obverse
11	^mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-IBILA LUGAL GAL LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÁR LUGAL KUR aš-šur	(1) Ashurbanipal, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), king of kings, ruler who has no rival, who rules from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea and who made all rulers bow down at his feet; (5) son of Esarhaddon, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; grandson of Sennacherib, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, I —
22	LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-ti LUGAL LUGAL.MEŠ NUN la šá-na-an
33	ša ul-tu tam-tim e-liti a-di tam-tim šap-liti i-be-lu-ma
44	gi-mir ma-li-ki ú-šak-niš še-pu-uš-šú1
55	DUMU ^mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA LUGAL GAL LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÁR LUGAL KUR aš-šur
66	GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI LUGAL KUR EME.GI₇ ù URI.KI
77	DUMU DUMU ^m^d30-PAP.MEŠ-SU LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÁR LUGAL KUR aš-šur a-na-ku-ma
88	ši-pir é-sag-íl šá AD ba-nu-u-a la ú-qa-at-tu-u	(8) 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. (10) I (re-)established the privileged status of Babylon (and) appointed Šamaš-<šuma>-ukīn, my favorite brother, to the kingship of Babylon in order that the strong might not harm the weak.
99	a-na-ku ú-šak-lil sat-tuk-ki é-sag-íl u DINGIR.MEŠ TIN.TIR.KI
1010	ú-ki-in ki-din-nu-tu KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI ak-ṣur
1111	áš-šú dan-nu a-na SIG la ḫa-ba-li ^m^dGIŠ.NU₁₁-<MU>-GI.NA
1212	ŠEŠ ta-li-mì a-na LUGAL-u-ti KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI ap-qid
1313	ina u₄-me-šú-ma é-tùr-kalam-ma É ^dINANNA TIN.TIR.KI	(13) At that time, I had Eturkalama, the temple of the goddess Ištar of Babylon, (re)built anew.
1414	eš-šiš ú-še-piš ^dINANNA TIN.TIR.KI ^dGAŠAN ṣir-tu	(14b) May the goddess Ištar of Babylon, the exalted lady, look upon my good deeds with pleasure and may she say good things about me daily before the god Bēl (Marduk) and the goddess Bēltīya (Zarpanītu)! May she determine as my fate a long life (and) make my reign [as] firm as heaven and netherworld! [Moreover, with regard to] Šamaš-<šuma>-ukīn, king of Babylon, [my favorite brother], may [his days] be long and may he experience the fullness of old age!
1515	ep-še-te-ia MUNUS.SIG₅.MEŠ ḫa-diš lip-pal-lis-ma
1616	u₄-me-šam-ma ma-ḫar ^dEN ^dGAŠAN-ía lit-tas-qar da-mì-iq-ti
1717	TI u₄-me SÙ.MEŠ li-šim ši-ma-ti
1818	[it]-ti AN-e ù KI-tim lu-ki-in BALA-ú-a
1919	[ù šá ^m^d]⸢GIŠ.NU₁₁⸣-<MU>-GI.NA LUGAL KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI
2020	[ŠEŠ ta-lim-ia u₄-me-šu] li-ri-ku liš-bi lit-tu-tu
2121	[ša šu-mì šaṭ-ru u MU ta]-lim-ia ina ši-pir ni-kil-ti i-pa-áš-ši-ṭu	(21) [(But) as for the one who] erases [my inscribed name or the name of] my [fav]orite (brother) by some crafty device, (or) destroys my inscribed object, or changes its position, may the goddess Ištar of Babylon speak evil of him before the god Bēl (and) the goddess Bēltīya (and) make his name (and) his descendant(s) disappear from the lands!
2222	MU.⸢SAR⸣-u-a i-ab-ba-tu lu-u a-šar-šú ú-nak-ka-ru
2323	^dINANNA TIN.TIR.KI ina ma-⸢ḫar⸣ ^dEN ^dGAŠAN-ía MUNUS.ḪUL-šú2
2424	lit-tas-qar MU-šú NUMUN-šú ina KUR.KUR li-ḫal-liq

1ú-šak-niš: One expects the verb to be in the subjunctive (ušaknišu); see also Asb. 245 line 4, Asb. 246 line 12, Asb. 254 line 7, Asb. 262 line 3, Asb. 263 line 8, and Asb. 243 line 4 (restored).

2Exs. 1*–2* have [... ^d]⸢AMAR⸣.UTU ^dEN-ía MUNUS.ḪUL-šú and [...] ⸢AMAR.UTU EN⸣-ía MUNUS.ḪUL-⸢šú⸣ respectively, “[...] evil of him [before (...) the god] Marduk, my lord,” instead of “evil of him before the god Bēl (and) the goddess Bēltīya.”

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/Q008332/.

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