Ashurbanipal 074

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(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.

(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].

(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.

(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].

(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.

(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].

(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 ...] ... [...]

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