Ashurbanipal 2005


Obverse
11	^dnin-gal UN-gal	(1) For the goddess Ningal, queen of Ekišnugal, divine Ninmenna (“Lady-of-the-Crown”), beloved of Ur, his lady:
22	é-giš-nu₁₁-gal
33	^dnin-men-na ki ág-gá
44	úri.KI-ma nin-a-ni-ir
55	^m^dEN.ZU-TIN-su-iq-bi	(5) Sîn-balāssu-iqbi, governor of Ur, built anew the Gipāru, the house of the supreme goddess, beloved wife of the god Sîn. After he constructed a statue, a (re-)creation of the goddess Ningal, (and) brought it into the house of the wise god, she took up residence in Enun, (which was) built (to be) her lordly abode.
66	šagina úri.KI-ma
77	gi₆-pàr é ^dnin-líl-le
88	nìta-dam ki ág-gá
99	^dsuen
1010	gibil-bi mu-na-dù
1111	alam níg-dím-dím-ma
1212	^dnin-gal-ke₄ u-me-ni-dím
1313	šà é digir ḪU-dù-šè1
1414	u-mu-un-ku₄-ku₄
1515	é-nun-ta
1616	ki-tuš nam-en-na-ni dù
1717	bí-in-ri-a

1ḪU-dù-šè (pa₇-dù-šè or paq-dù-šè) “wise”: ḪU-dù can stand for Akkadian mūdû (see AHw p. 666 and CAD M/2 p. 1 64).

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/Q003844/.