Sennacherib 139

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i' 1'1'

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(i' 1') [...] ... [...] he (Ispabāra) fl[ed far awa]y. I overwhel[med all of his wide land] like a fog. [I surrounded, conquered, destroyed, devastated, (and) bur]ned [with fire the cities Mar­u­biš­tu (and) Ak]­kud­du, cities of [his] ro[yal] house, [together with thirty-four small(er) settlements] in [their] environs.

i' 2'2'

[a-na ru-qé-e]-⸢ti⸣ in-na-[bit gim-ri KUR-šú]

i' 3'3'

[DAGAL-tim] ⸢GIM⸣ MURU₉ as-⸢ḫu⸣-[up URU.mar-ú-biš-ti]

i' 4'4'

[URU.ak]-⸢ku⸣-du URU.MEŠ É ⸢LUGAL⸣-[ti-šú a-di 34]1

i' 5'5'

[URU.MEŠ TUR].⸢MEŠ⸣ ša li-me-⸢ti⸣-[šú-nu al-me KUR-ud ap-pul aq-qur]

i' 6'6'

[i-na dGIŠ.BAR aq]-⸢mu⸣ UN.MEŠ TUR [GAL NITA u MUNUS]

(i' 6'b) I carrie[d off] people, young (and) [old, male and female, horses], mules, donkey[s, camels, oxen, and sh]eep and goats without number, [and (then) I brought him (Ispabāra) to nought and] made [his land] smaller. [...]

i' 7'7'

[ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ] ⸢ANŠE⸣.KUNGA.MEŠ ANŠE.[MEŠ ANŠE.GAM.MAL.MEŠ]

i' 8'8'

[GU₄.MEŠ ù US₅].⸢UDU⸣.ḪI.A la mi-nam áš-lu-[lam-ma a-di la ba-ši-i]2

i' 9'9'

[ú-šá-lik-šu-ma] ⸢ú⸣-ṣa-ḫir [KUR-su]

i' 10'10'

[...] x [...]

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1[URU.ak]-⸢ku⸣-du “[the city Ak]kuddu”: The name of this city is generally written URU.ak-ku-ud-du in the Sennacherib corpus; see, for example, text no. 22 ii 16.

2la mi-nam “without number”: This inscription follows text no. 4 line 27. Cf. text no. 22 ii 21, which has a-na la mi-nam.

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/Q003944/.