Ashurbanipal 164

Obverse
oo Lacuna

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o 1'1'

[(x)] ⸢DUMU.MEŠ⸣ [...]

(1') [...] sons [...].



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'

⸢m⸣[tam-ma-ri-tú] DUMU-šú id-ku-šú-ma [iṣ-ba-tu ŠU.II-su]



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'

[mtam-ma-ri-tú] DUMU-šú GAL-u ŠU.[II-su iṣ-ba-tu-ma]

o 10'10'

[a-na šu-zu-ub] ZI-šú-un in-nab-tú [iḫ-lu-pu qé-reb GIŠ.TIR]

o 11'11'

[ina tu-kul-ti AN.ŠÁR] ⸢u⸣ d⸢15⸣ [a-nir-šú-nu-ti]

o 12'12'

[SAG.DU-šú-nu KUD]-⸢is?⸣ [mé-eḫ-ret a-ḫa-meš]1

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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/.