Ashurbanipal 024
| Obverse | ||
| 11 | (1) I conquered, plund[ered, ...] the city Birtu-ša-Adad-rēmanni, of/which [...] the Manneans. | |
| 22 |
1šá KUR?: R. Borger (BIWA p. 298) tentatively suggests GAR.KUR (= šākin māti, “governor”) as a possible reading. This interpretation seems unlikely since the name Adad-rēmanni is part of the geographic name, and not the name of an individual. Loosely based on annalistic texts (for example, text no. 3 [Prism B] iii 52b–61), perhaps one could very tentatively read the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2 as: (1) šá KUR [AN.ŠÁR.KI? šá? (ina? ter-ṣi? LUGAL.MEŠ? AD.MEŠ-ia?) e-ki-mu?] man-na-a-a “of [Assyria, which] the Manneans [had taken away (in the time of the kings, my ancestors)]”; or (2) šá <ina?> ⸢ter!?⸣-[ṣi? LUGAL.MEŠ? AD.MEŠ-ia? e-ki-mu?] man-na-a-a “which the Manneans [had taken away] <in> the ti[me of the kings, my ancestors].” Of course, this assumes that more than two or three signs are missing from the ends of both lines; compare, Borger, BIWA p. 298, who reads the end of the line as [x x (x)], presumably based on the space shown in the 1 R (pl. 8 no. 1) copy.
2man-na-a-a “Manneans”: One expects KUR.man-na-a-a. Either KUR appears at the end of line 1, was omitted by the ancient scribe, or was omitted in the 1 R copy. KUR-ud “I conquered”: Unlike other Neo-Assyrian epigraphs recording the conquest of a city, this particular epigraph does not include the verb lawû (written al-me), which may imply that Birat-Adad-rēmanni was not beseiged; compare, for example, text nos. 40–41, as well as Grayson and Novotny, RINAP 3/2 pp. 103–105 nos. 56–59. It is certain that there are at least three signs missing from the end of the line; these are šal-lat-su “its booty.” It is less certain if anything followed those signs. Assuming a longer break (see the note to line 1), then one could tentatively restore ap-pul aq-qur ina dGIŠ.BAR aq-mu “I destroyed, demolished, (and) burned with fire” after šal-lat-su; compare text no. 41. Alternatively, following one epigraph of Sennacherib (Grayson and Novotny, RINAP 3/2 p. 103 no. 56), ina dGIŠ.BAR aq-mu, without ap-pul aq-qur, is also possible.
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/Q003723/.