Ashurbanipal 100
Obverse | ||
Column i | ||
o i'o i | Lacuna | |
o i' 1'1' | (i' 1') [granted m]e [power, virility, (and) outstanding strength]. They [place]d [lands that had not bowed down to] me [into my hands (and) allowed] me [to achieve] (i´ 5´) my [he]art’s [desire]. I marched [from the] Upper [Se]a [to the] Lower [S]ea, [where the k]ings, my ancestors, had regularly [tr]aveled. | |
o i' 2'2' | ||
o i' 3'3' | ||
o i' 4'4' | ||
o i' 5'5' | ||
o i' 6'6' | ||
o i' 7'7' | ||
o i' 8'8' | ||
o i' 9'9' | ||
o i' 10'10' | ||
Lacuna | ||
Column ii | ||
o ii'o ii | Lacuna | |
o ii' 1'1' | (ii' 1') [I conquered ...] in the di[strict of the city Ḫunnir], (which is) on [the border] of the city Ḫid[alu]. (ii´ 5´) I destr[oyed] (and) demolished the city Bašimu and [the villages] in its environs. | |
o ii' 2'2' | ||
o ii' 3'3' | ||
o ii' 4'4' | ||
o ii' 5'5' | ||
o ii' 6'6' | (ii' 6'b) As for the people living inside them, I annihilat[ed] them. I smashed thei[r] gods [...] ... [...] | |
o ii' 7'7' | ||
o ii' 8'8' | ||
o ii' 9'9' | ||
o ii' 10'10' | [...] x x [...] | |
Lacuna | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | Reverse completely missing |
1The translation assumes that the lacuna contained dun-nu zik-ru-ú-tu e-mu-qí ṣi-ra-a-ti “power, virility, (and) outstanding strength”; see text no. 10 (Prism T) iv 13–14.
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/Q003799/.