Ashurbanipal 163


Obverse
oo	Lacuna	Lacuna
o 1'1'	[^msi-im-bu-ru LÚ.NÍMGIR ša KUR.ELAM].⸢MA.KI ma⸣-[lak ERIM.ḪI.A-ia]	(1') [Simburu, the herald of the land Ela]m, [heard about] the ad[vance of my troops and became fri]ghtened at [the mention of my name. He] then [came] before [my messenger and] kissed m[y] feet.
o 2'2'	[iš-me-ma zi-kir MU-ia ip]-⸢làḫ-ma⸣ ina IGI ⸢LÚ⸣.[A KIN-ia]
o 3'3'	[il-lik-am-ma] ⸢ú-na⸣-šiq GÌR.II-⸢ia⸣

o 4'4'	[^mum-ba-ki-den]-⸢nu⸣ LÚ.NÍMGIR ⸢šá⸣ URU.ḫi-da-⸢lu⸣1	(4') [Fear] of my royal majesty covered [Umbakidin]u, the herald of the city Ḫidalu; he then cut off [the hea]d of Ištar-Nandi (Šutur-Naḫūndi), the k[in]g of the land Ḫidalu, [...] ... and (then) car[r]ied (it) and cast (it) down [before] my magnates. He then grasped the feet of my royal majesty.
o 5'5'	[pu-luḫ]-⸢ti⸣ LUGAL-ti-ia ⸢ik-tùm-šu⸣-ma
o 6'6'	[SAG].⸢DU⸣ ^miš-tar-na-an-⸢di LUGAL KUR⸣.ḫi-da-lu
o 7'7'	[x x] x x NÍG^? KUD-is-ma iš-⸢šam⸣-ma
o 8'8'	[ina IGI] ⸢LÚ.GAL⸣.MEŠ-ia id-di-ma iṣ-bat GÌR.II MAN-ti-ía

Reverse
r 1r 1	[^m]⸢zi-ni⸣-ni LÚ.šá IGI KUR ^mGIŠ-TAR-ta^?-x [(x)]2	(r 1) [Fear of] my lordly majesty covered [Z]inēni, the palace supervisor, (and) GIŠ-TAR-ta[..., ...] of the land Elam, [...] they came here to do obeisance to me. [...] my camp.
r 22	[x x (x)] ⸢NAM⸣ ša KUR.ELAM.MA.[KI]
r 33	[pu-luḫ-ti] EN-ti-⸢ia⸣ ik-tùm-šú-nu-⸢ti⸣
r 44	[...] ⸢ir-du⸣-ni a-na e-peš ARAD-ti-⸢ia⸣
r 55	[...] x KARAŠ-ia

r 66	[^mdu-na-nu DUMU ^m]⸢EN⸣-BA-šá	(r 6) I captured [Dunānu, son of B]ēl-iqīša, [alive. My warriors] th[rew him into iron fette]rs [and]
r 77	[bal-ṭu-us-su ina] ⸢ŠU⸣.II aṣ-bat
r 88	[qu-ra-di-ia bi-re]-⸢tú id⸣-[du-šú-ma]
	Lacuna	Lacuna

1The restorations to these lines are based on text no. 162 10´–11´; compare text no. 161 i 6–11 (epigraph no. 3).

2Compare text no. 161 i 6–11 (epigraph no. 3).

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/Q007571/.