Ashurbanipal 171


Obverse
o?o?	Lacuna	Lacuna
o? 1'1'	[x] x x [x] x [...]	(o? 1') ... [...] his hea[vy def]eat [... his] offspr[ing ...] provinces of [...] the people [...].
o? 2'2'	[di]-⸢ik⸣-ta-šú ma-aʾ-[as-su ...]
o? 3'3'	[x] DUMU ṣi-it ⸢lìb⸣-[bi-šú ...]
o? 4'4'	[(x)] x pa-ḫa-at x [...]
o? 5'5'	[x] UN.MEŠ [...]

o? 6'6'	⸢a-na⸣-ku ^mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-⸢A⸣ [...]	(o? 6') I, Ashurbanipa[l, ...], which I constantly marc[hed through ...] the land Mannea [...] you made bow d[own ...] (obv.? 10´) Er[isinni ...] ... [...]
o? 7'7'	ša at-tal-⸢la⸣-[ku ...]
o? 8'8'	KUR.man-na-a-⸢a⸣ [...]
o? 9'9'	tu-šak-⸢ni⸣-[iš ...]
o? 10'10'	^me-⸢ri⸣-[si-in-ni ...]
o? 11'11'	[x] x x [...]
	Lacuna	Lacuna
Reverse
r?r?	Lacuna	Lacuna
r? 1'1'	[...] x ⸢EN⸣-ti šá MUŠ [...]	(r? 1') [...] lordly [...], which [...] Teumman, the king of the land Elam, [...] I cut off his head in the assembly of [his troops ...].
r? 2'2'	[...] ⸢^m⸣te-um-man MAN KUR.ELAM.MA.⸢KI⸣ [...]
r? 3'3'	⸢ak⸣-kis SAG.DU-su ina UKKIN [ERIM.ḪI.A-šú ...]
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r? 4'4'	a-na-ku ⸢^m⸣AN.ŠÁR-DÙ-⸢A⸣ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI AN.ŠÁR ù ^diš₈^-tár^ [...]1	(r? 4') I, Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria: (The god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar, [...], before “May [the Vice]-Regent of (the God) Aššur En[dure],” the ga[te of (the god) Aššur, (...)], they allowed [me] to stand [ove]r my foes, who [...].
r? 5'5'	ina IGI lil-[bur] ⸢ÉNSI⸣ AN.ŠÁR ⸢KÁ⸣.[GAL AN.ŠÁR^? (...)]
r? 6'6'	⸢ú⸣-šá-⸢zi-zu⸣-[in-ni] ⸢EDIN ga⸣-re-ia ša x [...]
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r? 7'7'	[...] ⸢ip⸣-qid ⸢na⸣-[...]	(r? 7') [...] he appointed [...] I placed him [...] Umma[nigaš ...]
r? 8'8'	[...] ⸢ú⸣-še-šib-šú [...]
r? 9'9'	[... ^m]⸢um-man⸣-[i-gaš ...]
r? 10'10'	[...] x [...]
	Lacuna	Lacuna

1^diš₈^*-tár^* “the goddess Ištar”: For the name Ištar, the scribe has simply written the KI sign, which is visually similar to iš₈-tár (U-DAR).

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/Q007579/.