Ashurbanipal 188
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) [... Tammarī]tu, the king of the land Elam, [... the land E]lam, [..., third me]n (of chariot crews), cavalrymen, archers, [(...) eunuchs, engineers, every k]ind of artisan there was, (5) [..., mu]les, donkeys, oxen, and sheep and goats, [which were more numerous than locusts] — I carried (them) off to Assyria. | |
o 22 | [... KUR].⸢ELAM⸣.MA*.KI x1 | |
o 33 | ||
o 44 | [(...) LÚ.SAG.MEŠ LÚ.kit-kit-tu-ú gi]-⸢mir⸣ um-ma-a-ni ma-la ba-šú-u | |
o 55 | ||
o 66 | ||
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o 77 | [... man]-⸢za⸣-az MUŠEN.MEŠ ul e-zib | (7) [...] I did not (even) leave [a pla]ce for birds (to perch). [The daughters of kings, the sisters of kings, along with] earlier (and) later [family] of the kings of the land Elam, [officials (and) mayors of] those [citi]es, as many as I had conquered, (10) [chief archers, captains, charioteers], third men (of chariot crews), cavalrymen, [archers, eunuchs, engineer]s, every kind of artisan there was, [people — male and female, young and old — horses], mules, donk[ey]s, [oxen, and sheep and goats, which were more numer]ous [than locusts] — I carried (them) off to Assyria. |
o 88 | [DUMU.MUNUS.MEŠ LUGAL.MEŠ NIN₉.MEŠ LUGAL.MEŠ a-di qi-in-ni] maḫ-ri-tú ar-ki-tú ⸢šá⸣ LUGAL.MEŠ ⸢KUR.e-lam-ti⸣ | |
o 99 | [LÚ.qé-pa-a-ni LÚ.ḫa-za-na-a-ti ša URU].⸢MEŠ⸣ šá-⸢a⸣-tu-nu ma-la ak-šu-ud-du | |
o 1010 | [LÚ.GAL GIŠ.PAN.MEŠ LÚ.GAR-nu.MEŠ LÚ.mu-kil KUŠ.PA.MEŠ] ⸢LÚ⸣.3.U₅.MEŠ LÚ.šá pét-ḫal.MEŠ | |
o 1111 | [LÚ.ERIM.MEŠ GIŠ.PAN LÚ.SAG.MEŠ LÚ.kit-kit-tu]-⸢ú⸣ gi-mir um-⸢ma⸣-a-ni ma-⸢la⸣ ba-šú-u | |
o 1212 | [UN.MEŠ NITA u MUNUS TUR u GAL ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ] ⸢ANŠE⸣.KUNGA.MEŠ ⸢ANŠE.MEŠ⸣ | |
o 1313 | [GU₄.MEŠ u ṣe-e-ni ša e-li BURU₅.ḪI.A ma]-⸢aʾ-du⸣ áš-lu-la a-na ⸢KUR AN⸣.ŠÁR | |
o 1414 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | [SAḪAR.ḪI.A URU.šu-šá-an URU.ma-dak-tú URU.ḫal-te-ma-áš ù] ⸢si⸣-it-ti ma-ḫa-⸢zi-šú-nu⸣ | (r 1) [I gathered earth from the cities Susa, Madaktu, Ḫaltemaš, and the] rest of their cult centers [(and) took (it) to] Assyria. |
r 22 | ||
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1The MA sign in [KUR].⸢ELAM⸣.MA*.KI “[the land E]lam” is lacking its middle horizontal wedge. Also, the x at the end of the line has two long horizontal wedges followed by a fairly squat vertical wedge, but it is unclear what sign is intended.
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/Q007596/.