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11 | mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A 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 — |
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55 | DUMU mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA LUGAL GAL LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÁR LUGAL KUR aš-šur | |
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77 | DUMU DUMU md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÁR LUGAL KUR aš-šur a-na-ku-ma | |
88 | (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 | |
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1313 | (13) At that time, I had Emaḫ, the temple of the goddess Ninmaḫ (or Bēlet-ilī) that is inside Babylon, (re)built anew. | |
1414 | (14b) On account of this, may the goddess Ninmaḫ, the exalted lady, look upon my good deeds with pleasure and 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! | |
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2121 | ša šu-mì šaṭ-ru ù 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 favorite (brother) by some crafty device, (or) destroys my inscribed object, or changes its position, may the goddess Ninmaḫ speak evil of him before the god Bēl (and) the goddess Bēltīya and make his name (and) his descendant(s) disappear from the lands! |
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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/Q008333/.