Ashurbanipal 222
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | [a-na dAMAR.UTU? ...] x x x ⸢EN⸣-ia1 | |
o 22 | [a-na-ku mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI] ⸢MAN kib⸣-rat LÍMMU-tim2 | (2) [I, Ashurbanipal, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria], king of the four quarters (of the world); [offspring of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria; descendant of Sennac]herib, king of Assyria: |
o 33 | [ṣi-it lìb-bi mAN.ŠÁR-PAP-AŠ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI ŠÀ.BAL.BAL md30]-⸢PAP?.MEŠ?-SU?⸣ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI3 | |
o 44 | [é-ḫur-sag-gal-kur-kur-ra É AN.ŠÁR LUGAL DINGIR.MEŠ] ⸢EN?-ia? ú⸣-šak-lil | (4) I completed [Eḫursaggalkurkurra, the temple of (the god) Aššur, king of the gods], my [lor]d. [I clad its walls with reddish gold (and) made (them) s]h[i]ne like daylight. [I made (the god) Aššur, (the great lord,) enter into Eḫursaggula (“House, Big Mountain”) (and) made (him) dwell (on his)] eternal [dai]s. |
o 55 | [É.GAR₈.MEŠ-šú KÙ.GI ḫu-uš-šu-ú ú-šal-bi-iš ú]-⸢nam-mir⸣ ki-ma u₄-me | |
o 66 | [AN.ŠÁR (EN GAL-ú) ina é-ḫur-sag-gu-la ú-še-rib ú-šar-me pa]-⸢rak? da⸣-ra-a-ti | |
o 77 | [... dAMAR.UTU ... LUGAL? DINGIR.MEŠ iḫ-šu-ḫa-an-ni a-na] ⸢LÚ?.šá⸣-an-gu-ti | (7) [(At that time), the god Marduk, ..., the king of the gods, required] my priestly services (and) [..., I strove to restore every type of] divine [o]bj[ec]t of his. (10) [I skillfully made a bed of musukkannu-wood, a durable wood, (as) a] pleasure [be]d. [(As for) the canopy, ..., which is stretched out (and) which is re]splendent (as) the sun, [I ... (As for) the chariot, (...), which a king of the past (who had come) be]fore me had made, [it(s) ... had collapsed and] its (precious) stones had fallen out, [I ... its decoration] in its entirety. |
o 88 | ||
o 99 | [GIŠ.NÁ GIŠ.MES.MÁ.KAN.NA iṣ-ṣi da-re-e ma-a]-⸢a⸣-al tak-né-e | |
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | [... ša LUGAL pa-ni] ⸢maḫ⸣-ri-ia e-pu-šu | |
o 1212 | ||
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | (14b) [(...), by the command of (the god) Aššur, ...] my mind [... a]t (its) side | |
o 1515 | ||
Lacuna | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | Lacuna | |
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1dAMAR.UTU? “Marduk”: Or possibly restore AN.ŠÁR? “Aššur” or the name of another god.
2The restorations are based on text no. 115 obv. 1–2 and 5–7, which appear to duplicate obv. 2–6 of this inscription.
3[md30]-⸢PAP?.MEŠ?-SU?⸣ “[Sennac]herib”: R. Borger (BIWA LoBl p. 12) read the heavily damaged traces of these signs as [...]-⸢ZU⸣-PAB?-SU?.
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/Q007630/.