Ashurbanipal 261


Obverse
11	^den-líl-lá	(1) For the god Enlil, king of the gods, sovereign of heaven (and) netherworld, prince (who decides) the fates, (5) his lord: Ashurbanipal, his obedient shepherd, mighty king, king of the world, skillfully (re)built (10) with baked bricks ... within Eḫursaggalama, his ancient royal cella.
22	lugal digir-re-e-ne-ke₄
33	nir-gál an ki-a
44	nun nam tar-tar-ra
55	lugal-a-ni-ir
66	AN.ŠÁR-DÙ-IBILA
77	sipa še-ga-bi
88	lugal kala-ga
99	lugal ki-šár-ra
1010	A-x1
1111	šà é-ḫur-sag-galam-ma-ke₄
1212	pa-pa-ḫi nam-lugal-a-ni
1313	libir-ra-bi-ta^*2
1414	galam-bi
1515	sig₄ al-ùr-ra
1616	mu-un-na-dù

1Line 10 should record the name of the structure being restored, but the identification of the final sign(s) is not certain. Ex. 1 has: A-x (see minor variants [p. 216]) and ex. 2 appears to have A-NE.UD. A. George read the line as A.GÀR-DIŠ and suggested that it might refer to a baked-brick fitting of some sort (House Most High p. 100 no. 480).

2ta*: The final vertical wedge is omitted on ex. 1. Ex. 2 appears to have ⸢gin₇⸣, which would allow the translation “(re)built with baked bricks his ancient royal cella within Eḫursaggalama as (it had been) of old.”

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/Q008350/.