Sennacherib 137
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i 1'1' | [...] (traces) [...] | (i 1') [...] they flew away [a]lone [...] to [inaccessible] place(s). |
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i 3'3' | (i 3') [On my] first [campaign], I brought about [the defeat of] Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan), king of Kar[duniaš (Babylonia), together with the troop]s of (the land) Elam, [his] al[lies, in the pla]in of Kish. [In the midst of] that [batt]le he abandoned [his camp, fl]ed [alone], and (thereby) [saved] his life. [I seized the chariots, horse]s, wagons, (and) [mules that] he had abandoned [in the thick of battle]. | |
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i 8'8' | ||
i 9'9' | [GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ ANŠE.KUR.RA].⸢MEŠ⸣ GIŠ.ṣu-um-bi [ANŠE.KUNGA.MEŠ] | |
i 10'10' | ||
Lacuna |
1ip-pa-ar-šú “they flew away”: This is generally written ip-par-šú in the Sennacherib corpus; see, for example, text no. 22 i 19.
2⸢maḫ⸣-re-e-ia “first”: This is an error; one expects ⸢maḫ⸣-re-e. Cf., for example, text no. 22 i 20.
3The translation assumes that ŠU.II-a-a, “my hands,” appeared at the beginning of the now-missing i 11´.
Created by A. Kirk Grayson, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2014. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2013. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003942/.