Ashurbanipal 135

1In Ashurbanipal’s corpus of royal inscriptions, ul-tu ŠU.II “from the hands of” is either followed by ^mdGIŠ.NU₁₁-MU-GI.NA “Šamaš-šuma-ukīn” or LÚ.A KIN.MEŠ ^mdGIŠ.NU₁₁-MU-GI.NA “the messengers of Šamaš-šuma-ukīn.” However, it is unclear how to construe the traces of the sign on the edge of the break.

2URU.áš-šá-an “Aššan”: As already pointed out by T. Bauer (Asb. p. 63 n. 5), Aššan is not mentioned elsewhere in Ashurbanipal’s inscriptions. Bauer equated this name with the well-known city Anšan in southwestern Iran, but this seems unlikely since Anšan is much farther away and would be out of place in this context. It is possible that Aššan is a smaller Elamite settlement in the area that is not included in other inscriptions of this king. Another possibility is to consider the reading a scribal error for URU.šu^!-šá-an “the city Susa” (see Bagg, Rép. Géogr. 7/3–1 p. 44; one should note, however, that A. Bagg incorrectly cited the reference as KUR.áš-šá-an), but the broken context makes this uncertain. If this is an error for Susa, given that Susa is mentioned in the previous line, one would need to assume that the list of conquered places ended in line 4 and the reference in the present line went with what follows.