Ashurbanipal 100


Obverse
Column i
o i'o i	Lacuna	Lacuna
o i' 1'1'	[ú-šat-li-mu-in]-⸢ni⸣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'	[KUR.KUR la ma-gi-re]-ia
o i' 3'3'	[ina ŠU.II-ia im]-⸢nu⸣-u
o i' 4'4'	[ú-šam-ṣu]-⸢in⸣-ni
o i' 5'5'	[ma-la] ⸢lìb⸣-bi-ia
o i' 6'6'	[ul-tu tam]-tim e-⸢li⸣-ti
o i' 7'7'	[a-di] ⸢tam⸣-tim šap-li-ti
o i' 8'8'	[ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣.MEŠ AD.MEŠ-ia
o i' 9'9'	[ir]-te-ed-du-ú
o i' 10'10'	[a-na-ku lu]-⸢u ar-de⸣
	Lacuna	Lacuna
Column ii
o ii'o ii	Lacuna	Lacuna
o ii' 1'1'	ina ⸢na⸣-[ge-e šá URU.ḫu-un-nir]	(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'	ina ⸢UGU⸣ [mi-iṣ-ri]
o ii' 3'3'	ša URU.ḫi-⸢da⸣-[lu ak-šu-ud]
o ii' 4'4'	URU.ba-ši-mu ⸢ù⸣ [URU.MEŠ]
o ii' 5'5'	ša li-me-ti-šú ap-⸢pul⸣
o ii' 6'6'	⸢aq⸣-qur ša UN.MEŠ	(ii' 6'b) As for the people living inside them, I annihilat[ed] them. I smashed thei[r] gods [...] ... [...]
o ii' 7'7'	a-⸢šib⸣ lìb-bi-šú-un
o ii' 8'8'	ka-mar-šú-nu áš-⸢kun⸣
o ii' 9'9'	ú-šab-bir DINGIR.MEŠ-šú-⸢un⸣
o ii' 10'10'	[...] x x [...]
	Lacuna	Lacuna
Reverse
rr	Reverse completely missing	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/.