Ashurbanipal 155

(1') [...] ... [... he ga]ve me (and) taught me [...] he entrusted [me] with the making of their exalted emblems; [offspring of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria]; descendant of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, I —

(5') [...] the god Nabû [...] I captured my enemies [ali]ve (and thus) achieved m[y] heart’s desire. [... (the god Nabu), the sc]ribe of everything, [I ...] the land Elam. I cut off the head of Teumman, their king, in the assembly of his troops. [I placed] Ummanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš II), a son of Urt[ak]u — a (former) king of the land Elam — who had fled to me (and) had grasped my feet, on his (Teumman’s) throne. I installed [Tamm]arītu, the third brother of Ummanigaš, as king in the city Ḫidalu.

(9') (As for) Ummanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš II), the servant installed by me (lit. “my hand”), [he ...] the kindness [...], took [br]ibe(s) [fr]om Šamaš-šuma-ukīn [...], (and) sent [his forces with them]. My [battl]e [troops] who were ma[rching] about in Karduniaš (Babylonia) (and) subduing Chaldea came up [against] them and brought [about their defeat].

(14') [Tammarīt]u — (the one who is) not the brother of Ummanigaš — [rebelled] against U[mmani­gaš and struck him], together with his family, [down with the sword].

(r 1) [(As for) Tamm]arītu, who sat on the [throne of the land Elam] after Ummanigaš (and) did [not] inquire about the well-being of [my royal majesty (...), as a result of the su]pplications that I had addressed to the god Bēl (Marduk) and the god Nabû, th[ey] l[istened to my prayers]. Indabibi, a servant of his, rebelled against him and brought abo[ut] his defeat [in a pitched battle].

(r 5) Tammarītu, his brothers, his family, the seed of his father’s house, and the nobles who ma[rch at his side], fled from Indabibi — his (Tammarītu’s) servant — and he grasped the feet of [my] royal [majesty].

(r 7) I sent (a messenger) to Ummanaldašu, the king of the land Elam, in ord[er to ...] concerning the journey of the goddess Nanāya from Susa to Uruk, but he did not [...]. For a third time, by the command of the god Nabû, the honored son of the king of the gods (Marduk), who is clothed in awe-inspiring radiance, [I went] to E[lam]. (rev. 10) I conquered, destroyed, d[emolished, (and) burned with fire] fourteen fortified cities, their royal residence(s), together with small(er) settlements, which [were] wit[hout] number, and twelve districts that were in the land Elam, all of it. I [carried off to Assyria] their gods, their goddesses, possessions, property, people — male (and) female — horses, mu[les, ...], donkeys, oxen, and sheep and goats, which were more numerous than locusts. [I grasped] the hands of the goddess Nanāya, the pre-eminent one of Eanna, the spouse of the god Nabû, ... [...].

(r 15) At that time, [I had] a knife [made] of reddish gold who[se] wei[ght] is five minas [...]. May [...] the praise of [his] hero[ism, as muc]h as I had spoken, [...] to preserve my life, to make [the foundation(s) of] my royal throne [firm, to make my reign endure ... May ...] the rest of the land of my enemies ... the la[nd El]am, as much as [...].

(r 19) (As for) [the o]ne who er[ases] my inscribed name (or) the name of my father (or) my grandfather (and) [writes his (own) name, ma]y [the god Na]bu, the triumphant heir, an[grily] curs[e him and make his name (and) seed disappear from the land].