Ashurbanipal 190
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i 1i 1 | (i 1) [Before] my [father] was bor[n] (and) my [birt]h-[mother] was created in [her] moth[er’s] womb, the god Sîn, who created me to be king, named me [to] (re)build Eḫulḫul, (i 5) saying: “Ashurbanipal will (re)build that temple and make me dwell therein upon an eternal dais.” The word of the god Sîn, which he had spoken in distant days, he now revealed to the people of a later generation. He allowed the temple of the god Sîn — which Shalmaneser (III), son of Ashurnasirpal (II), (i 10) [a ki]ng of the past (who had come) before me, had built — to become [ol]d and [he entrus]ted (its renovation) to me. | |
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i 99 | ⸢É⸣ d30 šá m*d*?sál*?-ma*-nu*-MAŠ* A* m*aš*-šur*-PAP*-IBILA*(erased)1 | |
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i 1313 | (i 13) [(As for) that temple, which] had become [o]ld, I removed its [d]ilapidated section(s) [by the command of the gods Sîn (and) Nusku]. I made its [s]tr[u]cture larger [than the one in the days of the past]. | |
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ii 1'1' | (blank) [...] | (ii 1') (No translation possible) |
ii 2'2' | ⸢18?⸣ [...] | |
ii 3'3' | m⸢GIŠ⸣.[...] | |
ii 4'4' | (blank) [...] | |
ii 5'5' | x [...] | |
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1The scribe has crudely erased these lines of the inscription; see the commentary for details.
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/Q007598/.