Sennacherib 147
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | [LÚ.kal-da-a-a? ...]-⸢nu⸣ la ḫa-sis a-ma-⸢ti⸣1 | (1) [A Chaldean (Šūzubu), ...] ... a rash fellow, [a chariot fighter, a servant who belonged to the governor of the city Laḫīru, (...) w]ho in the time of my father fled [li]ke a bird [on account of the beating of the ...-official and the tearing out (of his hair) ...] and [wandered about in the open country], who entered [B]abylon [when there was rebellion and revolt (...)] and [was reckoned as one of them: They (the Babylonians) exalted him over them and] they entrusted him with [the kingship of the land of Sumer and Akkad]. |
o 22 | [LÚ.A SIG LÚ.ARAD da-gíl pa-ni LÚ.EN.NAM URU.la-ḫi-ri ...] ⸢ša⸣ i-na ŠÀ u₄-me ša AD-ia | |
o 33 | [la-pa-an ṭa-re-e ù ba-qa-me ša LÚ ... iṣ]-⸢ṣu⸣-riš in-nab-tu-ma | |
o 44 | [i-rap-pu-du ka-ma-a-ti i-na si-ḫi ù bar-ti (...) qé-reb] ⸢KÁ⸣.DINGIR.RA.KI e-ru-bu-ma | |
o 55 | [im-ma-nu-u it-ti-šú-un UGU-šú-nu ú-šar-bu-šú-ma LUGAL-ut KUR EME.GI₇ ù URI].KI ú-šad-gi-lu pa-nu-uš-šú | |
o 66 | [a-na KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI ša ḫi-ṭi-tu ma-gal ir-šu-ú ... mšu-zu-bu?] LÚ.kal-da-a-a DUMU la mám-ma-na-ma | (6) [To Babylon, which was very guilty, ... (wherein) Šūzubu], a Chaldean, son of a nobody, [a person of lowly status who has no strength, ...], was appointed as [...] ... of Babylon: [The people of Babylon who had rebelled (and) the Chaldeans, Arameans, (...)] fugitives, (and) runaways [who had banded together with them in exchange for gifts and bribes ...] ... and they took an oath. |
o 77 | [eṭ-lu dun-na-mu-ú ša la i-šu-ú e-mu-qi ...] x-ut KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI iš-šak-nu | |
o 88 | [LÚ.MEŠ? KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI ša si-ḫi i-pu-šú LÚ.kal-du LÚ.a-ra-mu? (...)] ⸢ḫal⸣-qu LÚ.mun-nab-tu | |
o 99 | [ša ina ŠÀ IGI.SÁ-e ù ṭa-aʾ-ti it-ti-šú-nu in-nen-du ...]-x-tu-ma iš-ku-nu ma-mi-tú | |
o 1010 | [É NÍG.GA ša é-sag-íl ip-tu-ma KÙ.BABBAR KÙ.GI ni-siq-ti NA₄.MEŠ ša a-na] ⸢d⸣EN u dzar-pa-ni-tum | (10) [They (the Babylonians) opened the treasury of Esagil and sent my gift(s) — the silver, gold, (and) precious stones that I had given as presents to the g]od Bēl (Marduk) and the goddess Zarpanītu, [the property (and) possession(s) of the temple of their gods — as a bribe to Umman-men]anu (Ḫumban-menanu), the king of the land Elam, [who does not have sense or insight. ...] ... previously and [they took an oath. They ga]ve him the order [to muster his army (and) to ... He gathered his army, inspected (his) chariots (and) wagons, ...] ... [...] |
o 1111 | [ú-qa-i-šá qi-šá-a-ti NÍG.ŠU NÍG.GA É DINGIR.MEŠ-šú-nu a-na mum-man-me]-⸢na⸣-nu LUGAL ELAM.MA.KI | |
o 1212 | [la ra-áš ṭè-e-mi ù mil-ki kàd-ra-a ú-še-bi-lu-uš ṭa-aʾ-tú? ...] x-a pa-na-tu-ma | |
o 1313 | [iš-ku-nu ma-mi-ti a-na di-ku-ti um-ma-ni-šú a-na ... ú-ma-ʾe]-⸢ru?-šú?⸣ ur-tu | |
o 1414 | [um-ma-an-šú ú-pa-aḫ-ḫir-ma GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ GIŠ.ṣu-um-bi e-šu-ra ...] x x [(x)] | |
Lacuna | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | Lacuna | |
r 1'1' | (r 1') [(As for) any future ruler who ... ch]anges and [... by some crafty device, era]ses [..., may the deities Aššur, Anu, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, ... all of the gods of] Assyria, make [their name, their seed, their offspring, (and) their progeny di]sappear [...]. | |
r 2'2' | ||
r 3'3' | [AN.ŠÁR da-nim d30 dUTU dIŠKUR ... DINGIR.MEŠ] ⸢KUR⸣ aš-šur.KI | |
r 4'4' | [DÙ-šú-nu MU-šú-nu NUMUN-šú-nu NUNUZ-šú-nu (ù) na-an-nab-šú-nu ... li]-⸢ḫal⸣-li-qu | |
r 5'5' | [...] x |
1For the restorations, see text no. 146.
2See the on-page notes to text no. 146 rev. 3´, 4´, and 6´.
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/Q003952/.