Ashurbanipal 073


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o i 1o i 1	ina maḫ-⸢re⸣-[e ger-ri-ia]	(i 1) On [my] fir[st campaign, I marched] to Maka[n] (Egypt) and Melu[ḫḫa (Ethiopia)]. Taharqa, the king of Egyp[t and Kush], (i 5) whose defeat Esarhaddon — king of A[ssyria, the father who had engendered me] — had brought about (and) [whose land he ruled over, forgot] the might of (the god) <Aš>š[ur, the goddess Ištar, and the great gods, my lords, and] trus[ted ...] ... [...]
o i 22	a-na KUR.má-⸢kan u KUR.me-luḫ⸣-[ḫa lu al-lik]
o i 33	^mtar-qu-u MAN KUR.mu-⸢ṣur⸣ [u KUR.ku-u-si]
o i 44	ša ^mAN.ŠÁR-PAP-AŠ MAN KUR ⸢AN⸣.[ŠÁR.KI AD DÙ-u-a]
o i 55	BAD₅.BAD₅-šú iš-⸢ku-nu^?⸣ [i-be-lu KUR-su]1
o i 66	da-na-an <AN>.⸢ŠÁR⸣ [^d15 u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia im-ši-ma]2
o i 77	⸢it⸣-ta-[kil ...]
o i 88	x x [...]
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r i'r i	Lacuna	Lacuna
r i' 1'1'	[áš-ta-kan] ⸢li⸣-[i-tu]	(r i' 1') [(thus) I achieved] vi[ctory. With] full [h]and(s), I returned [safel]y to Nineveh, my capital [city].
r i' 2'2'	[it-ti] ⸢qa⸣-ti ma-li-⸢ti⸣
r i' 3'3'	[šal]-⸢meš⸣ a-tu-ra a-na NINA.⸢KI⸣
r i' 4'4'	[URU] EN-ti-ia


r i' 5'5'	[x x] (traces)	(r i' 5') (No translation possible)

1[i-be-lu KUR-su] “[whose land he ruled over]”: This reconstruction follows text no. 3 (Prism B) i 52 and text no. 6 (Prism C) ii 8´; text no. 11 (Prism A) i 55 adds ù šu-u ^mtar-qu-u “he, Taharqa,” after KUR-su “whose land,” but since the signs at the beginning of the line are fairly spaced out, there not likely room for this material.

2<AN>.⸢ŠÁR⸣ [^d15 u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia] “(the god) <Aš>š[ur, the goddess Ištar, and the great gods, my lords]”: This reconstruction follows text no. 3 (Prism B) i 52 and text no. 11 (Prism A) i 56; text no. 6 (Prism C) ii 9´ instead has AN.ŠÁR u ⸢^d⸣[15 DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ] EN.MEŠ-ia “(the god) Aššur and the goddess [Ištar, the great gods], my lords.”

Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Joshua Jeffers, 2018-22, for the NEH-funded RINAP Project at the University of Pennsylvania. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003772/.