Ashurbanipal 174

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o 1'1'

a-na ḫu-[bu-ut EDIN ina tukul-ti AN.ŠÁR u d15]1

(1') [With the support of (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar, I] cap[tured the ḫiʾālu-troops of Šamaš-šuma-ukīn that he had sent] to pl[under the steppe].

o 2'2'

ik-[šu-da ŠU.II-a-a]



o 3'3'

DUMU.MEŠ [bár-sipa.KI e-piš si-ḫi bar-ti]

(3') [With the support of (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar, I captured] the citizens of [Borsippa who had perpetrated sedition (and) rebellion (and)] who [had sided] w[ith Šamaš-šuma-ukīn].

o 4'4'

ša it-[ti mdGIŠ.NU₁₁-MU-GI.NA -ku-nu pi-i-šú-un]2

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rLacuna

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r 1'1'

x [...]

(r 1') [...]



r 2'2'

si-id-ru šá mum-man-i-gaš [la na-ṣir MUN]

(r 2') The battle line of Ummanig[ (Ḫumban-nikaš II), the one who did not honor the kindness] of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, [who] had appointed him [as king inside the land Elam]. (rev. ) Tammarītu, <who> [had turned hostile] towards him [and (then) had brought about his defeat] (and) scatte[red his forces].

r 3'3'

ša mAN.ŠÁR--A MAN KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI [ša -reb KUR.ELAM.MA.KI]

r 4'4'

-ku-nu-šú [a-na LUGAL-ti]

r 5'5'

mtam-ma-ri- <ša?> it-ti-šú [x x-ma -ku-nu BAD₅.BAD₅-šú]3

r 6'6'

ú-par-ri-[ru el-lat-su]



r 7'7'

ni-kis SAG.DU [šá mum-man-i-gaš MAN KUR.ELAM.KI]

(r 7') The decapitated hea[d of Ummanigaš (Ḫumban-nikaš II), the king of the land Elam], who [had abandoned] m[e, the lord of his treaty, ...]

r 8'8'

šá ia-a-[ti EN? a-de?-e-šú ú-maš-šir-an-ni]

r 9'9'

[(x)] x [...]

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Lacuna

1The translation assumes that the lacuna contained .ḫa-a-a-la.MEŠ ša mdGIŠ.NU₁₁-MU-GI.NA ša? [...] “the ḫiʾālu-troops of Šamaš-šuma-ukīn th[at he had sent]” from text no. 172 obv. 15.

2The translation assumes that the lacuna contained ina tukul-ti AN.ŠÁR u d15 ik-šu-da ŠU.II-a-a “With the support of (the god) Aššur and the goddess Ištar, I captured” from text no. 172 obv. 18 and text no. 175 i 4´.

3<ša?> it-ti-šú [x x-ma] “<who> [had turned hostile] towards him [and]”: See the on-page note to text no. 178 rev. 9.


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/Q007582/.