Ashurbanipal 238


Obverse
oo	Lacuna	Lacuna
o 1'1'	[...] x	(1') [...] my [... the beginning of (my) r]eign [... ins]ide the land of the Kassites (5´) [...] their counsel changed [...], the king of Assyria, [...], who had [not b]owed down to my yoke, [...] pours out ...s [...] constantly did [...] he was uttering hostilities [towards Assyria].
o 2'2'	[...] x-ú-a
o 3'3'	[... MU.SAG].⸢NAM⸣.LUGAL.LA
o 4'4'	[... qé]-⸢reb⸣ KUR kaš-ši-i
o 5'5'	[...] x iš-ta-ni mi-lik-šú-un
o 6'6'	[...]-⸢ú⸣ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI
o 7'7'	[... la] ⸢ik⸣-nu-šú a-na ni-ri-ia
o 8'8'	[...] x DA GÀR^?.MEŠ i-tab-ba-ku
o 9'9'	[...] x i-te-ep-pu-šú i-dab-bu-ub ze-rat
o 10'10'	[KUR aš-šur.KI a-na-ku ^mAN.ŠÁR]-DÙ-IBILA LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI	(10'b) [I, Ashur]banipal, strong king, king of Assyria, [...] ... [..., w]ho was quick with reliable words, [...] I sent him [to] the city Qirbit and [... I made] him take [the road. (15´) ...] I sent and [... t]hem.
o 11'11'	[...] SIG₅ Ú GAL Ú MU e-mid/pap re-ši-ia
o 12'12'	[...] ⸢ša iḫ⸣-mu-ṭu da-ba-bi ki-i-nu
o 13'13'	[... a-na] ⸢URU⸣.qir-bi-ti áš-pur-šú-ma
o 14'14'	[... ḫar-ra-na^? ú-šá]-⸢aṣ⸣-bit-su
o 15'15'	[...] x ⸢áš⸣-pur-ma
o 16'16'	[...]-⸢su^?⸣-un
Reverse
r 1r 1	[...] x	(r 1) [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... he made (his troops) enter and [...] ... they seized (and) conquered, and (rev. 5) [...] ... they killed with the sword [...] ... and [...] their leader [...] and, in order not to see him, [...] he hung [... on poles] and surrounded the city (with them) (rev. 10) [...] to Nineveh [...] ... he gleefully rejoiced.
r 22	[...] x-ra-niš
r 33	[...] x ⸢Ú⸣ x ⸢ú⸣-še-rib-ma
r 44	[...]-⸢ta⸣-din iṣ-ba-⸢tu⸣ ik-šu-du-ma
r 55	[...] x-nu i-na-ru i-na GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ
r 66	[...] x-nu ú-šal/sal-liḫ-ma
r 77	[...] x a-li-ki pa-ni-šú-un
r 88	[...]-ma a-na la ba-ri-i-⸢šú^?⸣
r 99	[... ina GIŠ.ga-ši-ši] i-lu-ul-ma URU ú-šal-⸢mi⸣
r 1010	[...] x a-na qé-reb ni-nú-a.KI
r 1111	[...] x ⸢KI⸣ x GAL-a ḫa-diš i-ri-šá
r 1212	[...]-ru^?-bu LUGAL-ú-ti	(r 12) [...] ... kingship [..., wh]o cut(s) down his foes, [...] distant ...s (rev. 15) [...] may he be fully satisfied with (his) life [...] ...
r 1313	[...] ⸢mu⸣-šam-qí-tu ga-re-šú
r 1414	[...] x.MEŠ ⸢ru⸣-qu-ti
r 1515	[...] x TIN liš-bi
r 1616	[...] x-ri-šú


r 1717	[...] ⸢MU^?⸣-AN-NA1	(r 17) (No translation possible)
r 1818	[...] x-ga-a
r 1919	[...]-⸢ti^?⸣
	Lacuna	Lacuna

1M. Streck (Asb. p. 208 n. f) read the final signs of this line as MU.AN.NA, “year.” However, T. Bauer (Asb. pp. 54–55 n. 6) instead suggested that they could represent the last signs of a temple name ending in -an-na.

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/Q008326/.