Ashurbanipal 015
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| ii | Lacuna | |
| i 1'1' | x [x (x)] x [...]1 | (i 1') [...] the god Marduk, the sage of the god[s, granted me a broad mind] (and) extensive knowledge [as a gift]; the god Nabû, the scribe of everything, bestowed on me the pr[ecepts of his wisdom] as [a present]; (and) the gods Ninurta (and) Nergal endowe[d my body] with power, viri[lity], (and) unrivalled strength. [I learned] as much as the sage A[dapa], the secr[et (and) hidden lore of all of the scribal arts]. |
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| Column ii | ||
| ii 1ii 1 | [... MU.AN?].NA.MEŠ-ia ša šá-qí-iš2 | (ii 1) [...] my [yea]rs that [I sat] proudly [on the] throne of the father who had engendered me. |
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| ii 33 | (ii 3) I completed [Eḫursaggalku]rkurra, the temple of (the god) Aššur, my lord. I clad [its walls] with reddish [gold (and) made (them) shin]e like daylight. I made [(the god) Aššur, the grea]t [lord], enter inside there (and) made (him) reside [in Eḫursagg]ula, the inner sanctum of his divinity. I offered [sump]tuous [offerings] before him and [presente]d (him) with m[y] gifts. | |
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| ii 1010 | [...] ⸢é⸣-sag-gíl u KÁ.DINGIR.[RA.KI]4 | (ii 10) [...] Esagil and Babyl[on, ... the lord of l]ords (Marduk), I built anew. [...] I firmly established its designs and (then) made [its daises] shine [like the sta]rs (lit. “[writ]ings”) of the heavens. |
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| ii 1212 | [...] x GIŠ.ḪUR.MEŠ-šú ú-kin-ma | |
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| ii 1414 | (ii 14) [I had a c]anopy, which rivals the heavens, [made] from musukkannu-wood, [a durab]le [wood. I c]lad [its perimeter with thirty-four talents (and) twenty] minas of reddish gold and (thereby) [reinforced] its [b]onds. | |
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| ii 1616 | [34 GUN 20] ⸢MA.NA KÙ⸣.GI ru-uš-šu-ú | |
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| ii 1919 | (ii 19) [(As for) the throne-dais, the inner sanctum of] his (Marduk’s) exalted [divini]ty, [which is placed over the massive body of the ro]iling [sea (Tiāmat), ...] the god Marduk | |
| ii 2020 | ||
| ii 2121 | [na-du-ú ...] ⸢dAMAR⸣.UTU | |
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| Column iii | ||
| iiiiii | Lacuna | |
| iii 1'1' | (iii 1') [my huge] force[s, I] quickly [gave] the o[rder to them] to sup[port (and) aid the kings] (and) governors, [servants who belonged to me, (and) I made (them) take] the road to [Egypt. They traveled] furiously (and) [quickly (and) marched] as far as [the city Kār-Bānīte]. | |
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| iii 8'8' | (iii 8') Taharq[a, the king of Kush, ...] | |
| iii 9'9' | x [...] | |
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| Cols. iv–viii completely missing |
1For the beginning of the inscription, compare text no. 2 (Prism E₂) i 1–14 and K 2694 + K 3050 i 1–14 (L4; Novotny, SAACT 10 p. 77 no. 18).
2The conjectural restorations follow Borger, BIWA p. 176.
3Compare, for example, BM 134557 lines 5–7 (Novotny, SAACT 10 p. 74 no. 14) and text no. 6 (Prism C) i 11´–17´.
4These lines are not paralleled elsewhere in the extant Ashurbanipal corpus. However, compare text no. 23 (IIT) line 41.
5The conjectural restoration is based on BÁRA.MEŠ-šú tam-šil šá-ma-⸢mi⸣ (“its daises, replica(s) of the heaven[s]”) in text no. 23 (IIT) line 41.
6This version of the report of the enlargement of Marduk’s raised dais is duplicated almost verbatim in 81-2-4,212 obv. 7´ (Bauer, Asb. pl. 57) and, thus, the restorations are based on that inscription. [at-man DINGIR]-⸢ti⸣-šú “[the inner sanctum of] his (Marduk’s) [divini]ty.” Later inscriptions change at-man to šu-bat (“the seat of”); see, for example, text no. 6 (Prism C) i 24´.
Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-18. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2015–16, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003714/.