Ashurbanipal 122
Obverse | ||
Lacuna | ||
1'1' | [ša URU.li]-⸢mer-ÉNSI⸣-[aš-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' | (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. (5´) 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' | ||
4'4' | [mUR-da-ma]-⸢né⸣-e ⸢DUMU⸣ NIN₉-⸢šú⸣ [ina GIŠ.GU.ZA-šú ú-šib-ma ú-ma-ʾe-er ma-a-tum] | |
5'5' | [URU.ni-iʾ a]-⸢na⸣ dan-nu-⸢ti⸣-[šú iš-kun-ma ú-pa-ḫir el-lat-su] | |
6'6' | [a-na e-peš] ⸢MURUB₄⸣ ù ⸢MÈ⸣ [UGU ERIM.ḪI.A-ia GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ-šú] | |
7'7' | ||
8'8' | ||
9'9' | [ina MÈ] ⸢EDIN rap-ši BAD₅⸣.[BAD₅-šú iš-ku-nu ú-par-ri-ru el-lat-su] | |
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/.