Ashurbanipal 143
Obverse | ||
Lacuna | ||
1'1' | [...] (x) x x [...] | (1') [(As for) Ummanaldašu (Ḫumban-ḫaltaš III), the king of the land Elam who had seen the rage of the mighty weapons of (the god) Aššur (and the goddess Ištar), he r]eturned [from the mountain(s), his place of refuge], and th[ey (his troops)] entered [the city Madaktu, which I had destroyed, demolished, (and) plun]dered [by the command of (the god) Aššur (and the goddess Ištar). He sat down in mourning, (at a place of mourning)]. |
2'2' | [... i]-⸢tu⸣-ram-ma qé-⸢reb⸣ [URU.ma-dak-tú ...] | |
3'3' | [... áš-lu-lu] šal-lat-su e-ru-⸢bu⸣ [...]1 | |
4'4' | [... šá la] ⸢in⸣-nen-nu-ú KUR-⸢su⸣ [...] | (4') [By the command of his/their exalted divinity, which cannot] be changed, hi[s] land [rebelled against him. He (then) fled alone from the rebellion tha]t [his servants] had incited agai[nst him and he took to the mountain(s). From the mountain(s), his place of refuge whe]re he had always fled, [I caught him like a falcon and took him alive to Assyria]. |
5'5' | [...] ⸢šá⸣ ú-šab-šu-ú ⸢UGU⸣-[šú ...] | |
6'6' | [... a]-⸢šar⸣ it-ta-nap-raš-ši-⸢du⸣ [...] | |
7'7' | [...] MUN e-pu-šú-uš [...] | (7') [...] the kindness that I had done for him [... in a] widespread [pi]tched [battle I brought about] the def[eat of his troops ...] ... [...] the defe[at ...] |
8'8' | [... ina MÈ] ⸢EDIN⸣ rap-ši ⸢BAD₅⸣.[BAD₅ ...] | |
9'9' | [...] BI A ŠAL x [...] | |
10'10' | [...] x BAD₅.⸢BAD₅?⸣ [...] | |
11'11' | [...] x [...] | |
Lacuna |
1e-ru-⸢bu⸣ “th[ey (his troops)] entered”: In text no. 11 (Prism A) vii 15a and text no. 194 v 29a, the verb is e-ru-ub “he entered” with Ummanaldašu as its subject, so it is unclear why the present text has a vocalic suffix on the verb.
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/Q007551/.