Ashurbanipal 102


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Column i
o i'o i	Lacuna	Lacuna
o i' 1'1'	[a-di 20.ÀM] ⸢URU⸣.[MEŠ]1	(i' 1') I conquered [fourteen fortified cities, his royal residence(s), and small(er) settlements, which were without number, together with twenty] village[s, in the district of t]he city Ḫunnir, [(which is) on] the border [of the city] Ḫidalu. (i´ 5´) I destroyed (and) [demolis]hed [the city B]ašimu and the villages [in] its [e]nvirons.
o i' 2'2'	[ina na-ge-e šá] ⸢URU⸣.ḫu-un-⸢nir⸣
o i' 3'3'	[ina UGU] mì-iṣ-ri
o i' 4'4'	[šá URU].ḫi-da-lu KUR-ud
o i' 5'5'	[URU].⸢ba⸣-ši-mu ù URU.MEŠ
o i' 6'6'	[šá] ⸢li⸣-me-ti-šú ap-pul
o i' 7'7'	[aq]-⸢qur ša⸣ UN.MEŠ	(i' 7'b) As for the people [livi]ng inside them, I [an]nihilated them. I smashed their gods (and thus) placated [the m]ood of the lord of lords. (rev. i 1) [I] carried off to [Assyria] its [god]s, its goddesses, its [possessions, (and) its] prop[erty, (as well as) pe]ople, young and [old]. I devastated an area of [sixt]y leagues [in]side the land Elam (and) scattered [s]alt (and) cress over them.
o i' 8'8'	[a]-⸢šib⸣ lìb-bi-šú-un
o i' 9'9'	[ka]-⸢mar⸣-šú-nu áš-kun
o i' 10'10'	⸢ú⸣-šab-bir DINGIR.MEŠ-šú-un
o i' 11'11'	⸢ú⸣-šap-ši-iḫ
o i' 12'12'	⸢ka⸣-bat-ti EN EN.EN
o i' 13'13'	[DINGIR].⸢MEŠ⸣-šú ^d15.⸢MEŠ⸣-šú
Reverse
Column i
r i 1r i 1	[NÍG.ŠU]-šú NÍG.[GA-šú]
r i 22	⸢UN⸣.MEŠ TUR ⸢u⸣ [GAL]
r i 33	⸢áš⸣-lu-la a-na ⸢KUR⸣ [AN.ŠÁR.KI]
r i 44	⸢60⸣ KASKAL.GÍD qaq-qa-⸢ru⸣
r i 55	⸢qé-reb⸣ KUR.ELAM.MA.KI
r i 66	⸢ú⸣-šaḫ-rib
r i 77	⸢MUN⸣ Ú.ZAG.ḪI.LI.SAR
r i 88	⸢ú⸣-sap-pi-ḫa EDIN-uš-šú-un
r i 99	⸢^d⸣na-na-a	(r i 9) (As for) the goddess Nanāya, [w]ho 1,535 years (ago) [be]came angry and [wen]t to live
r i 1010	⸢ša⸣ 1 LIM 5 ME 30.ÀM 5 MU.AN.NA.MEŠ
r i 1111	⸢ta⸣-as-bu-us-⸢su-ma⸣
r i 1212	[tal-li]-⸢ku tu-ši-bu⸣
	Lacuna	Lacuna
	Two columns likely completely missing	Two columns likely completely missing

1The translation assumes that the lacuna contained 14 URU.MEŠ dan-nu-ti mu-šab LUGAL-ti-šú ù URU.MEŠ TUR.MEŠ šá ni-i-ba la i-šu-ú “fourteen fortified cities, his royal residence(s), and small(er) settlements, which were without number”; see text no. 10 (Prism T) iv 44–45.

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/Q003801/.