Ashurbanipal 159

Obverse
o 1o 1

[ana? dGAŠAN-GARZA? a-ši-bat? É? UŠ-u-ti? šá? qé]-⸢reb⸣ NINA.KI GAŠAN ⸢GAL⸣-tú GAŠAN-ia

(1) [For the goddess Bēlet-parṣē who resides in the House of Succession that is insi]de Nineveh, the great lady, my lady —

o 22

[a-na-ku mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL] KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-⸢tim⸣

(2) [I, Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of] Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), [... Šarra]t-Kidmuri, Ištar of Arbela, [... t]o be king of the four quarters (of the world):

o 33

[... dšar]-⸢rat⸣-kid-mu-ri ⸢d⸣15 ša URU.⸢LÍMMU⸣-DINGIR

o 44

[... a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL-u-ti kib-rat LÍMMU-tim

o 55

[...] x GIŠ.GU.ZA a-rat-⸢te⸣-e

(5b) [...] an excellent throne [... the se]at of the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, his lady, [...] ... of Bēlet-parṣē [... th]at excellent [throne ...] I decorated it and (10) [... cast with] shiny [zaḫa]lû-metal [...]. I established [the ... of] her great [divinit]y [... may] her heart rejoice [...] her divinity [...] my enemies (15) [...] all of the people, all of the settlements [...] the goddess Bēlet-parṣē [... Whenever th]at [...] becomes old [...].

o 66

[... mu]-šab dGAŠAN-⸢GARZA GAŠAN⸣-šú

o 77

[...] x KI ša dGAŠAN-⸢GARZA⸣

o 88

[... GIŠ.GU.ZA] ⸢a⸣-rat-te-e [šu]-a-tú

o 99

[...] ⸢ú-za-ʾi⸣-in-ši-ma

o 1010

[... pi-ti-iq za-ḫa]-⸢le⸣-e eb-bi

o 1111

[... DINGIR]-⸢ti⸣-šá GAL-ti ú-kin

o 1212

[...] ⸢li⸣-li-iṣ lìb-⸢ba⸣-šá

o 1313

[...] x DINGIR-ti-šá

o 1414

[...] ID LÚ.KÚR.MEŠ-⸢ia⸣

o 1515

[...] kul-lat UN.MEŠ kal da-ád-me

o 1616

[...] ⸢d⸣GAŠAN-GARZA

o 1717

[... šu]-⸢a⸣-tú i-lab-bi-ru

o 1818

[...] ša MU šaṭ-ru

(18b) (As for) the one who [erases] my inscribed name (or) [the name of my father (or) my grandfather] (and) writes [his (own) name], may [the goddess Bēlet-parṣē, the great lady], make [his name (and)] seed disappear from the land.

o 1919

[MU AD-ia AD AD-ia i-pa-áš-ši-ṭu MU-šú i]-šaṭ-ṭa-ru

o 2020

[dGAŠAN-GARZA GAŠAN GAL-tú MU-šú] NUMUN-šú ina KUR ⸢li⸣-ḫal-liq



Reverse
rr Reverse edited as text no. 160

Reverse edited as text no. 160


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