Sennacherib 149


Obverse
o 1o 1	^m^d30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ i-na KUR.MEŠ dan-nu-ti	(1) Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria: In the mighty mountains, wherein there is not (even) a (piece of) straw (or) a splinter of wood for sustaining a shepherd, wherein (even) the tough tree trunks of eʾru-trees grow flat on the ground, (and) between which a strong, steady wind never ceases to blow — where I pitched my camp, no other living (man) had (ever) brought a tent. I, myself, together with my troops, travelled over them with difficulty.
o 22	ša bal-ṭi ša re-ʾi ḫa-a-mu ḫu-ṣa-bu i-na lìb-bi
o 33	la-áš-šu-ni GIŠ.gu-up-ni dan-nu-ti ša GIŠ.e-eʾ-ri
o 44	i-na lìb-bi še-ru-ʾu-ú-ni šá-a-ru dan-nu
o 55	ka-a-a-ma-nu i-na bir-tu-uš-šu-nu a-la-ku
o 66	la i-par-ra-as i-na šá-ka-a-ni ša ma-dak-ti-ia
o 77	bal-ṭu 2-ú i-na ŠÀ-šu maš-ka-na la^* ub^-la^1
o 88	ana-ku a-di ERIM.ḪI.A-ia ú-sa-am-ri-iṣ ina muḫ-ḫi-šú-nu
o 99	(erasure) ar-ti-di
o 1010	É-⸢ku^*⸣-bat2	(10) Bīt-Kubat.
Reverse		(10) Bīt-Kubat.
r 11r 11	^m^dAMAR.UTU-A-SUM.NA LUGAL KUR.kár-^ddun-ía-àš	(11) Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan), king of Karduniaš (Babylonia), became frightened by my battle array; he shred his lordly garments and quickly departed from Babylon.
r 1212	ti-ib MÈ-ia e-dúr-ma TÚG.ṣu-ba-tú be-lu-ti-šú
r 1313	ú-šar-riṭ-ma (erasure) TA KÁ.DINGIR.MIN.KI ur-ru-ḫi-iš ú-ṣi3

r 1414	^mšu-zu-bu LUGAL NÍ.GI ša LUGAL-ut KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI ra-ma-nu-uš	(14) Šūzubu, a usurper king who had taken the kingship of Babylon for himself: Terror of doing battle with me fell upon him; he lost consciousness (and) fell from (his) horse to the ground.
r 1515	ú-ter-ru ḫur-ba-šú ta-ḫa-zi-ia im-qu-su-ma4
r 1616	ir-šá-a <ma>-na-aḫ-tú ul-tu ṣe-er ANŠE.KUR.RA qaq-qa-riš5
r 1717	im-qu-ut
r 1818	[(x x)] KUR EME.GI₇	(18) [(...)] the land of Sumer.
r 1919	[(x x)] KUR.eme-luḫ-ḫa	(19) [(...)] the land of Emeluḫḫa (Meluḫḫa).

1la^* ub^*-la^* “had not brought”: The tablet has TE UB BA.

2É-⸢ku^*⸣-bat “Bīt-Kubat”: The tablet has É-⸢ru⸣-bat.

3The scribe ineffectually erased ul-tu after he changed his mind to write TA. KÁ.DINGIR.MIN.KI “Babylon”: On this unusual orthography, see Borger, Asarh. p. 31 §19 and George, BTT pp. 254–255.

4The scribe started to add a horizontal ruling between lines 15 and 16, but stopped halfway, just before ta-ḫa-zi-ia.

5ir-šá-a <ma>-na-aḫ-tú “he lost consciousness”: The translation was suggested by M. Worthington (personal communication).

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/Q003954/.