Ashurbanipal 191


Obverse
o? 1o? 1	[...] ⸢se⸣-de-ru mit-ḫu-ṣu-⸢u⸣-[tú^?]	(o? 1) [... I know how to fo]rm a battle line (and do) comba[t. ...] I gra[sped] the ... of kingship [...]. Nobles (and) eu[nuch(s)] rejoiced [(and) they heeded the pronouncement(s) from my lips. Before the king, the father who had engendered me, I would intercede on their behalf (and)] I would [an]nul [their] sin(s). (obv.? 5) [... I regularly appo]inted governo[rs ...]. The great gods constantly looked [with pleasure upon my good deeds and, by their exalted command, I gladly sat on the thron]e of the father who had engendered me.
o? 22	[...] x-ib LUGAL-u-ti a-⸢ḫu^?⸣-[uz^?]
o? 33	[...] ⸢i⸣-ri-šú NUN.⸢MEŠ^? LÚ.šu⸣-[ut SAG]
o? 44	[... pu]-⸢us^?⸣-su-sa-ku ⸢ḫi⸣-ṭi-[šú-nu]
o? 55	[... áš]-⸢tak^?⸣-ka-na šak-ka-nak-[ki]
o? 66	[...] ⸢it⸣-tap-la-su DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ
o? 77	[... GIŠ.AŠ].⸢TI⸣ a-bi ba-ni-ia1
o? 88	[...]-⸢ma⸣ ú-na-áš-šá-qu GÌR.II-ia	(o? 8) [... a]nd they kissed my feet. [...] they placed in my hands [... (obv.? 10) ...] they relented. I completed [... (and) made (it) shine] like daylight. [...] in Egašanḫiliku[ga ...] which I (just) built [... (and) I made (Šarrat-Kidmuri) dwell on (her)] ete[rnal d]ais.
o? 99	[... ú]-mal-lu-u ŠU.II-u-a
o? 1010	[...] ir-šu-u sa-li-mu
o? 1111	[...] ⸢ú⸣-šak-lil
o? 1212	[...] x GIM u₄-me
o? 1313	[...] ina^? é^*-gašan-ḫi-li-⸢kù⸣-[ga]2
o? 1414	[...] x e-pu-šú (erasure?) x [...]
o? 1515	[...] ⸢pa⸣-rak da-⸢ra⸣-[a-ti]
Reverse
r? 1r? 1	[...] x x (x) [...]	(r? 1) [...] ... [...] ... [... to ma]ke dec[isions ...] quarters (of the world) (rev.? 5) [... bel]oved by his lordly majesty [...] they ... the city [...] the gods Šamaš and Adad [... belo]ved by his heart [...] the road to Šuanna (Babylon) (rev.? 10) [...] ... the corners [...] ... a joyful procession [... insid]e it (Esagil) he (Marduk) took up residence on (his) eternal dais. [...] ... I returned (them) to their places (of worship) [...] I made [regular offerings (and) contributions] more plentiful [than those of distant days].
r? 22	[...] x x [...]
r? 33	[... pa^?]-⸢ra⸣-as ⸢EŠ^?⸣.[BAR.MEŠ^?]
r? 44	[...]-⸢ú⸣ kib-ra-⸢a-ti^?⸣
r? 55	[... na]-ram be-lu-ti-⸢šú^?⸣
r? 66	[...] x ⸢URU⸣ i-da-ad-du-⸢ú^?⸣
r? 77	[...] ^dUTU u ^dIŠKUR
r? 88	[... na]-⸢ram⸣ lìb-bi-šú
r? 99	[...] ⸢ú-ru⸣-uḫ šu-an-na.KI
r? 1010	[...]-⸢ḫu^?-zu⸣ tub-qa-a-ti
r? 1111	[...]-⸢mu^?⸣-ru ḫar-ra-an ḪÚL.MEŠ
r? 1212	[... qé]-⸢reb⸣-šú ir-ma-a pa-rak da-ra-⸢a⸣-ti
r? 1313	[...] x KI a-na áš-ri-šú-nu ú-⸢ter⸣
r? 1414	[...] ⸢ú⸣-šá-tir-ma ú-⸢kin⸣ [(x)]
r? 1515	[... iṣ]-⸢ṣi⸣ da-re-e šá šit-nu-nu ⸢šá⸣-[ma-meš]	(r? 15) [I had a canopy], which rivals the he[avens, made from musukkannu-wood, a] durable [woo]d.

1Given the parallel in text no. 220 (L4) ii 11´b of ú-šib ṭa-a-biš ina GIŠ.GU.ZA AD DÙ-ia “I sat gladly on the throne of the father who had engendered me,” one expects GIŠ.GU.ZA before a-bi ba-ni-ia. However, the damaged traces before a-bi are clearly the upper portion of a vertical and a winkelhaken, and so they cannot be the end of ZA. Although this could be a scribal error (such as ⸢ḪA⸣ for the visually similar ⸢ZA⸣), the traces are treated here as the rare writing of GIŠ.AŠ.TI for kussû (see AŠ.TI in Grayson and Novotny, RINAP 3/2 p. 231 no. 162 iii 15´; compare also GIŠ.AŠ.TE Tadmor and Yamada, RINAP 1 p. 142 Tiglath-pileser III no. 53 line 27).

2é^*-gašan-ḫi-li-⸢kù⸣-[ga] “Egašanḫiliku[ga]”: The é lacks two vertical wedges. For the connection of the goddess Šarrat-Kidmuri with this structure, see Novotny, Eḫulḫul pp. 216–217.

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/Q007599/.