Sennacherib 137

Obverse
Column i
ii Lacuna

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i 1'1'

[...] (traces) [...]

(i 1') [...] they flew away [a]lone [...] to [inaccessible] place(s).

i 2'2'

[e]-diš ip-pa-ar-šú a-⸢šar⸣ [la ʾa-a-ri]1

i 3'3'

[i-na] ⸢maḫ⸣-re-e-ia [ger-ri-ia]2

(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].

i 4'4'

[ša md]⸢MES⸣-A-SUM.NA LUGAL KUR.⸢kár⸣-[ddun-ía-àš]

i 5'5'

[a-di ERIM.ḪI].⸢A⸣ ELAM.MA.KI re-[ṣi-šú]

i 6'6'

[i-na ta-mir]-⸢ti⸣ kiš.KI áš-ta-⸢kan⸣ [BAD₅.BAD₅-šú]

i 7'7'

[i-na MURUB₄ tam-ḫa]-⸢ri⸣ šu-a-tu e-zib [KARAŠ-su]

i 8'8'

[e-diš ip-par]-⸢šid⸣-ma na-piš-⸢tuš⸣ [e-ṭí-ir]

i 9'9'

[GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ ANŠE.KUR.RA].⸢MEŠ⸣ GIŠ.ṣu-um-bi [ANŠE.KUNGA.MEŠ]

i 10'10'

[ša i-na qit-ru-ub ta-ḫa-zi] ⸢ú-maš-ši-ru⸣ [ik-šu-da]3

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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/.