Ashurbanipal 188

Obverse
o 1o 1

[... mtam-ma-ri]-⸢tú⸣ MAN KUR.ELAM.MA.KI

(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

[... LÚ.3].⸢U₅⸣.MEŠ LÚ.šá pét-ḫal.MEŠ LÚ.ERIM.MEŠ GIŠ.PAN

o 44

[(...) LÚ.SAG.MEŠ LÚ.kit-kit-tu-ú gi]-⸢mir⸣ um-ma-a-ni ma-la ba-šú-u

o 55

[... ANŠE].⸢KUNGA⸣.MEŠ ANŠE.MEŠ GU₄.MEŠ u ṣe-e-ni

o 66

[ša e-li BURU₅.ḪI.A ma-aʾ-du] áš-lu-la a-na KUR aš-šur.KI

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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

[... a-na si-ḫir]-⸢ti⸣ ak-⸢tùm⸣ KUR.ELAM.MA.KI

(14) [...] I covered the land Elam [in (its) entire]ty.

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

[e-si-pa al-qa-a a-na KUR] AN.ŠÁR.KI

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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/.