Ashurbanipal 164
Obverse | ||
oo | Lacuna | |
o 1'1' | [(x)] ⸢DUMU.MEŠ⸣ [...] | |
o 2'2' | mte-⸢um⸣-man MAN ⸢KUR⸣.[ELAM.MA.KI ša ina MÈ-ia dan-ni muḫ-ḫu-ṣu] | (2') Teumman, the king of the la[nd Elam who had been struck during my mighty battle], fl[ed] in order to sav[e] (his) life [and slipped into the forest. The a]xle of the wagon, [the v]ehicle of his royal majesty, br[oke and it overturned upon him]. |
o 3'3' | ⸢a⸣-na šu-zu-⸢ub ZI-tim in-nab⸣-[tú-ma iḫ-lu-up qé-reb GIŠ.TIR] | |
o 4'4' | [bu]-⸢bu-ut⸣ GIŠ.ṣu-um-bi ⸢ru⸣-kub MAN-ti-šú iš-⸢še⸣-[bir-ma ip-pal-síḫ EDIN-uš-šú] | |
o 5'5' | mte-⸢um⸣-man <ša> ina mi-⸢qit ṭè⸣-e-me a-na DUMU-⸢šú⸣ [iq-bu-u šu-le-e GIŠ.PAN] | (5') Teumman, <who>, during a los[s of (all) r]eason, [said] to hi[s] son: “[Shoot the bow]!” |
o 6'6' | mte-⸢um⸣-[man MAN] ⸢KUR⸣.ELAM.MA.KI ša GIŠ.[ṣu-um-bu id-du-šú-ma] | (6') Teum[man, the king of] the land Elam, whom (his) [wagon had cast down and whom Tammarītu], his son, had helped up, [grasping his hands]. |
o 7'7' | ||
o 8'8' | [mte-um-man MAN] ⸢KUR⸣.ELAM.MA.KI šá ina ⸢MÈ⸣ [dan-ni muḫ-ḫu-ṣu] | (8') [Teumman, the king of the lan]d Elam who [had been struck] during a [mighty] battl[e (and) whose] hands [Tammarītu], his eldest son, [had grasped] — (10´) they fled [in order to save] their live(s and) [slipped into the forest. With the support of (the god) Aššur] and the goddess Ištar, [I killed them. I cut o]f[f their head(s) in front of one another]. |
o 9'9' | ||
o 10'10' | [a-na šu-zu-ub] ZI-šú-un in-nab-tú [iḫ-lu-pu qé-reb GIŠ.TIR] | |
o 11'11' | ||
o 12'12' | ||
Lacuna | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | Reverse completely missing |
1This line, which also appears in the epigraph that is inscribed on a palace relief (text no. 26 line 6), is omitted from the parallel passage in text no. 168 obv. 5´–6´.
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/Q007572/.