Ashurbanipal 078

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oo Lacuna

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o 1'1'

[... šul]-⸢me ú?⸣-[ma-ʾe-er ...]

(1') [I had mercy on him (Uallî)]. I [dispatched my messenger with (a message of) goodw]ill [to him. He sent me (his) daughter, his own offspring, to serve as a housekeeper. (As for) his former payment, which they had discontinued in] the time of the ki[ngs, my ancestors, they carried (it) before me]. I add[ed thirty horses to his former payment and imposed (it) upon him].

o 2'2'

[...] ⸢ter?-ṣi? LUGAL?⸣.[MEŠ ...]

o 3'3'

[...] ú-⸢rad⸣-[di-ma ...]



o 4'4'

[...] ⸢mad⸣-a-a msar-⸢a⸣-[ti ...]

(4') [At that time, (as for) Birisḫatri, a city ruler of the M]edes, (and) Sara[ti (and) Pariḫi, two sons of Gagî, a city ruler of the land Saḫi, who had cast off the yoke of m]y [lordship, I conquered (and) plundered] seventy-five of [their fortified] cities. [I captured them alive (and)] took (them) t[o Nineveh, my capital city].

o 5'5'

[... EN-ti]-⸢ia?⸣ <<U>> 75 URU.MEŠ-[šú-nu ...]

o 6'6'

[...] ⸢al⸣-qa-a a-⸢na⸣ [...]



Reverse
r 1r 1

[... KUR.ur]-⸢ar⸣-ṭi šá ⸢a⸣-na [...]1

(r 1) [(As for) Andaria, the governor/field marshal of the land Ura]rṭu, who [had advanced (and) ma]rched dur[ing the night] to [conquer the lands (of the cities) Uppumu and Kullimmeri, the people living in the city Kullimmeri, servants who belonged to me], infli[cted a heav]y [defeat on him during the night. (...)].

r 22

[... il]-li-ka ⸢qé?⸣-[reb ...]

r 33

[... ma-(aʾ)-as]-⸢su⸣ i-⸢du⸣-[ku ...]



r 44

[...] TU SU [...]

(r 4) (No translation possible)

r 55

[...] x KUR ŠI [...]

r 66

[...] x [...]

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1“[Andaria, the governor/field marshal]”: Text no. 3 (Prism B) iv 6 gives Andaria the title of LÚ.EN.NAM “governor,” while text no. 6 (Prism C) v 13 gives him the title of LÚ.tur-ta-⸢an?⸣ “field marsh[al].”


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/Q003777/.