Ashurbanipal 074
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i 1i 1 | [...] x x | (i 1) (No translation possible) |
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ii 1ii 1 | x x x [...] | (ii 1) (No translation possible) |
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ii 1'1' | [...] x x (x) | (ii 1') [...] ... [saying]: “Grasp [the feet of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria], and [conquer] your enemies [through the mention of his name.” On the (very) day] he saw [this dream, (ii 5´) he sent his mounted messenger to inqui]re about my well-being. [(As for) this dream that he had se]en, [he sent (a message about it) by the hands of a messenger of his and he r]eported (it) to me. |
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ii 8'8' | (ii 8') [From the day that he grasped the feet of] my [royal majes]ty, he conquered [the Cimmerians, who were disturbing] the people of his land, (ii 10´) [had never feared] my [ancestor]s, [and, with regard to me, had not grasped the feet of m]y [royal majesty]. | |
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iii 1'1' | [...] x | (iii 1') [...] ... [I burned (the villages in the district of the city Eristeyana) with fire, (and) plun]dered (them). [With the assault of my battle array], I laid w[a]ste to [his (Rayadišadî’s) district (and) (iii 5´) made] his entire land [smaller. I returned safely with muc]h [plunder (and)] substantial booty (and) [set foot] in Assyrian territory. |
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iii 8'8' | (iii 8') [(As for) the cities Birrūa, Šarru-iqb]i, (and) Gusinê, [cities that were formerly within the te]rritory of Assyria (iii 10´) [which] the Manneans had taken away [in the time of the kings, m]y [ancestors, I conquered those settlements]. I tore [the land M]annea apart from within. [I carried off t]o Assyria [(their) horses, (their) equipment], (and) their [implem]ents of war. I [reorg]anized [those cities (and) returned (them) to the territory of] As[syria]. | |
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iii 10'10' | [ša ina ter-ṣi LUGAL.MEŠ AD.MEŠ]-⸢ia⸣ e-ki-mu KUR.man-na-a-a | |
iii 11'11' | [da-ád-me šá-a-tu-nu ak-šu-ud KUR].⸢man-na⸣-a-a ul-tú lìb-bi ⸢as-suḫ⸣ | |
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iii 16'16' | (iii 16') (As for) Aḫšē[ri, who did not fear my lordly majesty], (the god) Aššur and the goddess I[štar placed him in the hands of his servants]. The people of his land [incited] a re[bellion against him. (iii 20´) They cast his corpse] into a street of his city (and) dra[gged his body] to and fr[o. They cut down with the sword] his brothers (and) the seed of [his] fat[her’s] house. | |
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iii 21'21' | ŠEŠ.⸢MEŠ⸣-šú NUMUN É ⸢AD⸣-[šú ú-šam-qí-tu ina GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ] | |
iii 22'22' | (iii 22') Afterwards, Ual[lî, his son, sat on his throne]. He saw the might of the deities Aššur, S[în, Šamaš, Bēl (Marduk) and Nabû], Ištar of Nineveh, [Ištar of Arbela, Ninurta, Nusku, (and) Nergal, the gre]at [gods], my lords, and bowed down t[o my yoke. For the pr]eservation of his (own) life, he o[pened up] his hands [to me] (and) made an appeal to my lordly majesty. He sent Erisinni, [his] heir [designate], to Nineveh and he kissed [my feet]. (iv 5) I had mercy on him and I dispatched my messenger with (a message of) g[oodwill] to [him]. He sent me (his) daughter, his own offspring, to se[rve as a housekeeper]. (As for) his former payment, which they had discontinued in the tim[e of the kings], my ancestors, they brought (it) be[fore me]. I added thirty horses to h[is former] payment and im[posed (it) upon him]. | |
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iii 24'24' | ⸢d15 šá NINA⸣.KI ⸢d⸣[15 šá LÍMMU-DINGIR.KI dMAŠ dnusku dU.GUR] | |
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iv 1iv 1 | [DINGIR.MEŠ] ⸢GAL⸣.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia e-mur-ma ik-nu-šá a-⸢na⸣ [GIŠ.ŠUDUN-ia] | |
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iv 77 | DUMU.MUNUS ṣi-it lìb-bi-šú ú-še-bi-la a-na e-[peš MUNUS.AGRIG-u-ti] | |
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iv 1212 | (iv 12) At that time, (as for) Birisḫatri, a ci[ty] ruler [of the Medes, (and) Sa]rati (and) Pariḫi, two sons of Gag[î, a city ruler of the land Saḫi, who had cast] off the yoke of [my] l[ordship], (iv 15) I conqu[ered seventy-five of their fortif]ied [cities ...] ... [...] | |
iv 1313 | [m]⸢sar-a⸣-ti mpa-ri-ḫi 2 DUMU.MEŠ mga-a-⸢gi⸣ [LÚ.EN.URU KUR.sa-ḫi] | |
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iv 1515 | [75 URU.MEŠ-šú-nu] ⸢dan-nu⸣-ti ⸢ak?-šu?⸣-[ud ...] | |
iv 1616 | [...] x (x) [...] | |
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iv 1'1' | [...] A? | (iv 1') (No translation possible) |
iv 2'2' | [...] x | |
iv 3'3' | [...]-⸢ia⸣ | |
iv 4'4' | [...] AN | (iv 4') (No translation possible) |
iv 5'5' | [...] x |
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/Q003773/.