Aššur-etel-ilāni 06
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11 | KI.MAḪ šá mdUTU-ib-ni DUMU mda-ku-⸢ru šá⸣ mAN.ŠÁR-NIR.GÁL-DINGIR.MEŠ LUGAL KUR aš-šur | (1) The tomb of Šamaš-ibni, the Dakkurian, upon whom Aššur-etel-ilāni, king of Assyria, had pity, brought from Assyria to Bīt-Dakkūri, his (own) country, and laid to rest in a tomb inside his home of Dūru-ša-Ladīni (“Fortress of Ladīnu”). |
22 | re-e-mu ir-šá-áš-šum-ma ul-tu qé-reb KUR aš-šur a-na É-mda-kur KUR-šú | |
33 | ú-bil-la-áš-šum-ma ina KI.MAḪ ina qé-reb É-šú šá BÀD-šá-la-di-ni ú-šá-aṣ-li-lu-šú | |
44 | (4) Whoever you are, whether governor or commander or judge or prince, who is appointed in the land, do not harm this tomb or (its) bone(s)! (But rather) look after its position (and) extend (your) good protection over it! For (doing) this, may the god Marduk, the great lord, lengthen your reign, establish his good protection over you, (and) bless your name, your descendant(s), and your long life for all time! | |
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1010 | ⸢MU⸣-ka NUMUN-⸢ka ù ba-la-ṭu u₄⸣-me-⸢ka GÍD.DA.MEŠ a-na u₄-me ṣa-a-ta⸣ lik-⸢ru?-bu?⸣ | |
1111 | šum-ma NUN šu-ú lu-ú LÚ.šak-nu lu-ú LÚ.šá-pi-ru lu-ú da-a-a-nu | (11) (But) if that prince or governor or commandant or judge or governor who appears in the land harms this tomb or (its) bone(s), (or) changes its position, taking (it) to another place, (15) or (if) another person incites him to plan wicked things (against this tomb) and he listens (to him), may the god Marduk, the great lord, make his name, his descendant(s), his offspring, and his seed disappear from (mention by) the mouth(s) of the people! May the god Nabû, who makes opposing forces agree, cut short the number of his days (lit. “the number of his long days”)! May the god Nergal not spare his life from malaria, plague, or slaughter! |
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1818 | dAG sa-ni-iq mit-ḫur-ti mi-na-a-ta u₄-me-⸢šú GÍD.DA⸣.MEŠ ⸢li-kar-ri⸣ | |
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1e-ṣe-et-ti “bone(s)”: Note the Assyrian form of the word eṣemtu.
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/Q003861/.