Ashurbanipal 252

Obverse
Lacuna

Lacuna

1'1'

[ši]-⸢pir? šu-a⸣-ti ⸢in-na⸣-[ḫu ...]

(1') this [work] falls into dis[repair ...], question skilled [craftsmen! ... Rebuild (...)], the temple of the goddess Ištar according to [its ancient] specifi[cations! (...) The goddess Ištar (of Agade)] will (then) listen to [your prayers. Look at my] inscribed object, [anoint (it) with oil, offer a sacrifice, (and)] s[et] (my inscribed object) with your (own) inscribed object!

2'2'

en-qu-ú-tu ši-ta-⸢al⸣ [...]

3'3'

⸢É d15⸣ ki-i si-⸢ma⸣-[ti-šu? la-bi-ra-a-ti e-pu-uš (...) ik-ri-bi-ka dINANNA (a-ga-dè.KI)]

4'4'

i-⸢šem⸣-me MU.SAR-⸢ú?⸣-[a a-mur-ma Ì.GIŠ pu-šu-uš UDU.SISKUR BAL-qí]

5'5'

it-ti MU.⸢SAR⸣-e-ka ⸢šu⸣-[kun šá šu-mì šaṭ-ru ina ši-pir ni-kil-ti i-pa-áš-ši-ṭu šu-mì]

(5'b) [(But) as for the one who erases my inscribed name by some crafty device], (or) does not write [my name] with his name, (or) [destroys my inscribed object], (or) does not set [my inscribed object with his (own) inscribed object] ... [...] the goddess Ištar of Agade [will ...].

6'6'

it-ti MU-šú la i-šaṭ-ṭa-⸢ru⸣ [MU.SAR-ú-a i-ab-ba-tu-ma it-ti MU.SAR-e-šú]

7'7'

⸢la i-šak-ka-nu qí?-bit?⸣ x [...]

8'8'

dINANNA a-ga-⸢dè⸣.[KI ...]


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/Q008341/.