Ashurbanipal 187
| Obverse | ||
| Lacuna | ||
| 1'1' | [...] x x x (x) [...] | (1') [...] ... [..., the thir]d (lion), I struck (its) kidneys but did not [...] ... [...], the fourth, I smashed (its) skull and ... [...], the fifth, I cut through its tendon and ... [...]. (5´) With my single, lordly, harnessed team (and) the v[ehicle of my royal majesty], forty minutes after dawn, I [quelled] the fury of eighteen raging lions [...] I threw their corpses opposite one another [into] heaps [...]. I made their blood flow and [...] the vegetation of the steppe like [...]. |
| 2'2' | [šal]-⸢šú UZU?.ÉLLAG?.MEŠ⸣ am-ḫa-aṣ-ma ul [x x] x x [...] | |
| 3'3' | ⸢re⸣-bu-u muḫ-ḫa am-ḫa-as-su-ma [(x)] ⸢A?⸣ ŠÚ E x [...] | |
| 4'4' | ḫa-an-šú ma-at-nu-šú ú-bat-ti-⸢iq-ma⸣ A RI x [...] | |
| 5'5' | ina 1-et ANŠE.ú-re-e ṣi-mit-ti be-lu-ti-ia ⸢ru?⸣-[kub LUGAL-ti-ia] | |
| 6'6' | 10 UŠ u₄-mu ina a-la-ki ša 18 UR.MAḪ.MEŠ ⸢na⸣-ad-ru-ti uz-za-šú-nu ⸢ú⸣-[šap-ši-iḫ ...]1 | |
| 7'7' | ADDA.MEŠ-šú-nu mé-eḫ-ret a-⸢ḫa-meš ad⸣-di gu-ru-⸢un⸣-[niš ...] | |
| 8'8' | ÚŠ.MEŠ-šú-nu ⸢ú⸣-šar-di-ma ur-⸢qí-it⸣ EDIN GIM ⸢na⸣-[...] | |
| 9'9' | a-šar UR.MAḪ.MEŠ šú-nu-ti a-du-ku ú-šal-x [...] | (9') (At) the place (where) I killed those lions, I ... [...]. This field, which the people of my palace [named] “He [...] the Lio[n(s) ...],” that field to Mullissu, who dwells in Nineveh which she love[s, ...] in order to give her offerings (and) contributions (and) to provide (them) more lavishly than the regular offerings of the (other) god[s ...]. |
| 10'10' | ||
| 11'11' | A.ŠÀ šu-⸢a-tu⸣ a-na dNIN.LÍL a-ši-bat NINA.KI ša ta-ram-[mu ...] | |
| 12'12' | a-na na-dan zi-bé-e-šá gi-né-šá ṭuḫ-ḫu-di UGU sat-tuk-⸢ki⸣ DINGIR.[MEŠ ...] | |
| 13'13' | (13') When Mullissu [...] the scent of offerings of gra[in ...] and the giving of his regular offerings ... [...]. (15´) May [her] hear[t] rejoice [...] with pleasure [...] | |
| 14'14' | ù na-dan sat-tuk-ke-e-šú x x [...] | |
| 15'15' | li-li-iṣ lìb-⸢ba?⸣-[šá ...] | |
| 16'16' | [x] x ⸢ḫa?⸣-diš (x) [...] | |
| Lacuna | ||
| Left | ||
| l.e. 1l.e. 1 | [...] ŠÁ ⸢TIR?⸣ GIŠ SI [...] | (l.e. 1) (No translation possible) |
| l.e. 22 | [...] ŠI x [...] |
110 UŠ “forty minutes”: For 1 UŠ equaling four minutes, see Borger, MZL p. 326.
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/Q007595/.