Ashurbanipal 162


Obverse
oo	Lacuna	Lacuna
o 1'1'	⸢šá ^m^dMUATI⸣-[ú-ṣal-li LÚ.šá^? UGU^? URU^? KUR.gam-bu-li^? (...) áš-lu-up]1	(1') [I ripped out the tongue(s ...)] of Na[bû-uṣalli, a city overseer of the land Gambulu, (and)] fla[yed him/(them)].
o 2'2'	áš-ḫu-[ṭa KUŠ-šú-(un)]

o 3'3'	it-ti [ni-kis SAG.DU ^mte-um-man MAN KUR.ELAM.MA.KI]2	(3') With [the decapitated head of Teumman, the king of the land Elam, I took] the road to the city [Arbela in (the midst of) celebration].
o 4'4'	KASKAL URU.[LÍMMU-DINGIR aṣ-bat ina ḪÚL.MEŠ]

o 5'5'	^mtam-ma-ri-⸢tú⸣ [...]	(5') I sent Tammarītu [...] with him [...] the people of the city Ḫidal[u ...].
o 6'6'	it-ti-šú áš-⸢pur⸣ [...]
o 7'7'	UN.MEŠ URU.ḫi-⸢da-lu⸣ [...]

o 8'8'	^msi-im-bu-ru LÚ.⸢NÍMGIR⸣ [ša KUR.ELAM.MA.KI ma-lak ERIM.ḪI.A-ia iš-me-ma]	(8') Simburu, the heral[d of the land Elam, heard about the advance of my troops and] became frightened at the mention of my name. [He] then [came] b[efore my messenger and kissed my feet].
o 9'9'	zi-⸢kir⸣ MU-ía ip-pal-làḫ-⸢ma ina⸣ [IGI LÚ.A KIN-ia il-lik-am-ma ú-na-šiq GÌR.II-ía]

o 10'10'	^mum-ba-ki-den-nu ⸢LÚ⸣.[NÍMGIR šá URU.ḫi-da-lu pu-luḫ-ti LUGAL-ti-ia]3	(10') [Fear of my royal majesty] covered Umbakidinu, the [herald of the city Ḫidalu]; [he] then [cut off] the he[ad of Ištar-Nandi (Šutur-Naḫūndi), the king of the land Ḫidalu],
o 11'11'	⸢ik-tùm⸣-šú-ma ⸢SAG⸣.[DU ^miš-tar-na-an-di LUGAL KUR.ḫi-da-lu]4
	Lacuna	Lacuna
Reverse
rr	Lacuna	Lacuna
r 1'1'	⸢^dUTU^?⸣ ^dIŠKUR ^d⸢EN⸣ [^dAG ^d15 ša NINA.KI]5	(r 1') [who with the support of the deities Aššur, Sîn], Šamaš, Adad, Bēl (Marduk), [Nabû, Ištar of Nineveh], Ištar of Arb[ela, Ninurta, Nergal, and Nusku] co[nquered] my enemies [(and) achieved my heart’s desire].
r 2'2'	^d15 ša URU.LÍMMU-⸢DINGIR⸣ [^dMAŠ ^dU.GUR u ^dnusku]
r 3'3'	LÚ.KÚR.MEŠ-ía ⸢ak⸣-[šu-du am-ṣu-u ma-la lìb-bi-ia]6

r 4'4'	a-na-ku ^mAN.ŠÁR-⸢DÙ⸣-[A ...]	(r 4') I, Ashurbani[pal, ...] through [mighty] victories [...] allowe[d me] to stan[d ...], the king of the land Elam, [...].
r 5'5'	ina li-i-ti [u da-na-ni ...]
r 6'6'	ú-šá-zi-⸢zu⸣-[in^?-ni^? ...]
r 7'7'	⸢MAN⸣ KUR.ELAM.MA.[KI ...]
	Lacuna	Lacuna
Left
l.e. 1l.e. 1	^mum-man-⸢i⸣-[gaš DUMU ^mur-ta-ki MAN KUR.ELAM.MA.KI]	(l.e. 1) Ummani[gaš (Ḫumban-nikaš II), son of Urtaku — the king of the land Elam] — a fugitive who had grasp[ed the feet of my royal majesty]: I s[ent my forces] with him [to help him].
l.e. 22	mun-nab-tú šá iṣ-⸢ba⸣-[tú GÌR.II LUGAL-ti-ia Á.KAL-ia]7
l.e. 33	(blank) it-ti-šú ⸢áš⸣-[pur a-na kit-ri-šú]8
l.e. 44	[...] ⸢MURUB₄⸣ NINA.KI	(l.e. 4) [... the cita]del of Nineveh.

1Restorations to obv. 1´–2´ are based on text no. 165 rev. 14´–15´ (compare also text no. 161 iii 2´–4´ [epigraph no. 28]) and text no. 3 (Prism B) vi 71–74. Due to damage, it is unclear if the epigraph comprised only these two lines, or if it contained additional material before obv. 1´ that is now broken away. E. Weidner (AfO 8 [1932–33] p. 186) tentatively treated the epigraph as complete, and read the lines as ša ^m^d⸢MUATI⸣-[u-sal-li LÚ.ša UGU URU-šu EME-šu aš-lu-up] / aš-ḫu-[ṭa KUŠ-šu] (“As for Na[bû-uṣalli, a city overseer of his, I ripped out his tongue (and)] / fla[yed him]”). However, no other epigraph of Ashurbanipal’s starts with a preposing ša/šá (“As for”), and Weidner’s restoration leaves the presumptive pronominal suffix on URU-šu “his city” without a referent (the Urarṭian king Rusa in text no. 165). In contrast, J.M. Russell (Writing on the Wall p. 163) believed there was additional content in the lacuna, and he translated “[I tore out the tongues] of Na[bu-usalli and Mannu-ki-ahhe] and flayed them.” Mannu-kī-aḫḫē and Nabû-uṣalli are always mentioned together in Ashurbanipal’s inscriptions, but one should note that Nabû-uṣalli never precedes the former.

2Restorations are based on text no. 165 rev. 7´–8´.

3Restorations are based on text no. 163 4´–6´; also, compare text no. 161 i 6–11 (epigraph no. 3).

4The translation assumes that the lacuna after obv. 11´ contained KUD-is “he cut off.”

5The translation assumes that the lacuna before rev. 1´ contained šá ina tukul-ti AN.ŠÁR ^d30 “who with the support of the deities Aššur, Sîn.”

6Restorations are based on text no. 161 iii 29´.

7mun-nab-tú “a fugitive”: Text no. 161 does not include this word in its parallel line.

8This line is indented by about three signs in comparison to left edge 1–2.

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