Ashurbanipal 251


Obverse
11	^dasar-ri umun gal lugal-a-ni-ir ^mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A	(1) For the god Asari, great lord, his lord: Ashurbanipal, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, son of Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria, (and) king of Babylon, for the sake of his life had constructed Etemenanki anew.
22	lugal imin lugal ma-da aš-šur.KI dumu ^mAN.ŠÁR-PAP-AŠ
33	lugal imin lugal ma-da aš-šur.KI lugal TIN.TIR.KI1
44	nam-ti-la-bi-šè é-temen-an-ki eš-šiš mu-na-dím

1inim, the number seven, is used here for the Akkadian word kiššatu, “world, totality”; see AHw p. 492 and CAD K p. 457.

Based on Grant Frame, Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC) (RIMB 2; Toronto, 1995). Digitized, lemmatized, and updated by Alexa Bartelmus, 2015-16, for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q008340/.