Ashurbanipal 2003


Obverse
11	^dsuen an-na	(1) For the god Sîn of heaven, lion of the gods (and) king of the Enlil (circle of) gods, his lord:
22	pirig digir-re-e-ne
33	lugal ^den-líl-e-ne1
44	lugal-a-ni-ir
55	^m^dEN.ZU-TI.LA.BI-DU₁₁.GA	(5) Sîn-balāssu-iqbi, governor of Ur, son of Ningal-iddin, (who was also) governor of Ur, who provides for Ekišnugal —
66	šagina úri.KI-ma
77	dumu ^m⸢^d⸣nin-gal-SUM.MA
88	šagina úri.KI-ma
99	ú-a é-kíš-nu₆-gal
1010	é-temen-ní-gùr-ru	(10) (With regard to) Etemennigurru, whose (enclosure) wall had collapsed in the distant past, whose foundation terrace had lain waste, (and) whose foundations were covered over, I sought the location of (15) its forgotten gate(s). I put its foundation inscription inside a box and raised its (the temple’s) top. I inlaid with silver (20) a door of boxwood, wood of finest quality from a distant mountain, fixed with a copper peg, whose band(s) were strong, (whose) bottom was of gold, (25) (whose) door bolt was of shining silver, (and whose) bar and pivot were of strong copper, in order that it might stand forever in the doorway of Esagdili (“House of Secrets”), the house built in secret.
1111	níg u₄ ul-lí^*-a-ta2
1212	é-gar₈ dirig-ga-bi3
1313	te-me-en-bi a-ri-a
1414	uš₈-bi bí-in-šú-šú
1515	ká-bi ḫa-lam-me-e-ne4
1616	ki-bi bí-in-kin-kin
1717	šà dub te-me-en-bi
1818	u-me-ni-dù
1919	sag-bi ba-ni-in-íl
2020	GIŠ.ig GIŠ.taškarin giš sag
2121	kur-bi-ta sù-ud-da
2222	gag urudu bí-in-dù-a
2323	kéš-da-bi kala-ga
2424	uš kù-sig₁₇-a-ke₄
2525	si-gar kù-babbar zálag-zálag
2626	aškud nu-kúš-ù
2727	urudu kala-ga
2828	kù-babbar u-me-ni-dab-dab
2929	ká é sag-dili5
3030	é ḫal-la-ta dù-a
3131	da-rí-šè gub-bu-dè
3232	lú mu-sar-ra-mu	(32) May the god Sîn (and) the goddess Ningal, the god(s), my helpers, destroy the name of anyone who erases my inscription or changes its position!
3333	šu bí-íb-ùr-e-a
3434	ḫa-ba ki-bi kúr-ru-da
3535	^dsuen ^dnin-gal
3636	digir bàd-gal-gu₁₀
3737	mu-bi
3838	ḫé-en-ḫa-lam-e-ne

1den-líl-e-ne: The “Enlil (circle of) gods” was a group of deities, generally of minor importance, who were associated with the god Enlil, the patron of the city Nippur. Some of the deities in this group are mentioned in Asb. 2010–2015.

2ul-lí*-a-ta “distant”: The text has ul-DÙ-a-ta.

3dirig-ga-bi “had collapsed”: With regard to the translation of dirig-ga, see Frame, RIMB 2 p. 39 B.2.6.1 (on-page note to line 10).

4ká-bi ḫa-lam-me-e-ne “its forgotten gate(s)”: One could also translated this passage as “its ruined gate(s).”

5The translation follows George, House Most High pp. 138–139; and Hätinen, dubsar 20 p. 358 and n. 2019.

Based on Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC) (RIMB 2; Toronto, 1995). Digitized, lemmatized, and updated by Alexa Bartelmus, 2015-16, for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003842/.

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