Ashurbanipal 122

Obverse
Lacuna

Lacuna

1'1'

[ša URU.li]-mer-ÉNSI-[-šur MU-šú a-na LUGAL-ú-te áš-kun]1

(1') [Moreover, I installed Nabû-šēzibanni, his son, as king in the city Athribis, whose name is (now) Limm]er-iš[šâk-Aššur].

2'2'

[mtar]-qu-ú MAN KUR.ku-u-[si ḫat-tu pu-luḫ-ti EN-ti-ia]

(2') [(As for) Taharq]a, the king of Ku[sh, terror (and) fear of my lordly majesty o]verwhelmed him a[nd he passed away. Tanutam]on, the son of hi[s] sister, [sat upon his throne and governed the land. () He made the city Thebes] his fortres[s and assembled his forces. To wage wa]r and bat[tle against my troops, he mobi]lized [his weapons (and) took the road. With the support of (the god) A]ššur and the [great] g[ods, my lords, they (my troops) brought about his] d[efeat in a] widespread [pitch]ed [battle (and) scattered his forces].

3'3'

is-ḫu-up-šu-ma [il-lik nam-mu-ši-šú]

4'4'

[mUR-da-ma]--e DUMU NIN₉-šú [ina GIŠ.GU.ZA-šú ú-šib-ma ú-ma-ʾe-er ma-a-tum]

5'5'

[URU.ni- a]-na dan-nu-ti-[šú -kun-ma ú-pa-ḫir el-lat-su]

6'6'

[a-na e-peš] MURUB₄ ù [UGU ERIM.ḪI.A-ia GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ-šú]

7'7'

[ú]-šat-ba-a [iṣ-ba-ta ḫar-ra-na]

8'8'

[ina tu-kul-ti] AN.ŠÁR ù DINGIR.[MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-ia]

9'9'

[ina ] EDIN rap-ši BAD₅.[BAD₅-šú -ku-nu ú-par-ri-ru el-lat-su]

Lacuna

Lacuna

1The translation assumes that the lacuna contained ù mdMUATI-še-zib-an-ni DUMU-šú ina URU.ḫa-at-ḫa-ri-ba “Moreover, Nabû-šēzibanni, his son, in the city Athribis”; see text no. 207 (LET) obv. 68´.


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/Q003821/.