Ashurbanipal 201


Obverse
oo	Lacuna	Lacuna
o 1'1'	[...] x [...]	(1') (No translation possible)
o 2'2'	[...] ḪI^? x [...]
o 3'3'	[...] ⸢KA^? AM^?⸣ [...]
o 4'4'	[...] x ERIM x [...]
o 5'5'	[...] x MA A ⸢SU⸣ x (x)
o 6'6'	[...] x ⸢IK^?⸣ x x [(x) iš^?]-⸢pu^?⸣-ra me-re-eḫ-tú	(6') [...] ... [he (Teumman) s]ent insolent words to me.
o 7'7'	[ina ITI.NE ITI na-an-mur-ti] ⸢MUL⸣.PAN am-ḫur ^d⸢15⸣ šar-ra-tú be-let ⸢be-le-ti⸣	(7') [During the month Abu (V) — the month of the heliacal rising of the Bo]w Star — I made an appeal to the goddess [Išt]ar, the queen, the lady of ladies. [... (and)] I made an appeal to [h]er [divinity], while [my] t[ears] were flowing, [saying]:
o 8'8'	[... DINGIR-us]-⸢sa⸣ ú-sap-pa-a il-li-ka ⸢di⸣-[ma-a-a]
o 9'9'	[um-ma ^dbe-let URU.LÍMMU-DINGIR.KI a-na-ku ^maš]-šur-DÙ-A GÌR.⸢NÍTA⸣ bi-nu-ut ⸢ŠU⸣.[II-ki]	(9'b) [“O Divine Lady of the city Arbela! I, As]hurbanipal, the governor, the creation of [your] h[ands whom (the god) Aššur] — the [E]nlil of the gods, the father who had engende[red you — requires ... I have co]me (here) to revere [your] divinit[y ...] ... [...]
o 10'10'	[...] ⸢^dEN.LÍL⸣ DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣ AD ba-⸢nu⸣-[ki]
o 11'11'	[... al]-⸢li⸣-ka a-na pa-laḫ DINGIR-⸢ti⸣-[ki]
o 12'12'	[...] x ⸢a-na⸣ x KUR x [x x (x)]
	Lacuna	Lacuna
Reverse
rr	Lacuna	Lacuna
r 1'1'	[...] x x x [x]	(r 1') [...] ... [... the one who dis]turbs my emblem(s) (and) does not write the mention of m[y] name (on it/them), may [the goddess Ištar ...] glare at him angrily and completely overthrow his kingship.
r 2'2'	[... mu]-⸢saḫ-ḫu⸣-u si-ma-ti-⸢ia⸣ la šá-ṭi-ru ni-bit ⸢MU-ia⸣
r 3'3'	[...] ⸢ez-zi⸣-iš lik-kil-me-šu-ma a-di la ba-še₂₀-e lis-ki-pa LUGAL-⸢su⸣

r 4'4'	[...]+⸢41⸣ MU.DIDLI	(r 4') [...]+41 lines [...] of the goddess Ištar, who resides in the city Arbela.
r 5'5'	[...] x ^d15 a-ši-bat URU.LÍMMU-⸢DINGIR⸣

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/Q007609/.