Ashurbanipal 264


Obverse
oo	Lacuna	Lacuna
o 1'1'	[...] (traces) [x x] x x ⸢TAR ŠÚ BAD⸣	(1') [...] ... [...] pure [food offer]ings, anything ... set out before you.
o 2'2'	[x x (x) ma-ka]-⸢le⸣-e KÙ.MEŠ mim^?-ma^? x-⸢sú^?⸣ [x] DU^? ma-ḫar^?-ka kun^?-nu^?	(2') [... m]e, Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, the servant (who is) the favorite of your heart, [...] ... (and) the just shepherdship that you bestow at your command, [...] the preservation of (my) life ... [...] a [b]right spirit ... Grant ... as a gift, ... come to my aid and always stand in for me, kill m[y] enemy, (and) make the foundation of my royal throne as secure as a mountain for eternity.
o 3'3'	[x x (x) ia-a]-⸢ti⸣ ^mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A^* MAN KUR aš-šur.⸢KI⸣ ARAD mi-gir lìb-bi-ki
o 4'4'	[...] x-tim re-ʾu-ú-⸢ti⸣ mi-šar šá taš-ru-ki^* ina ⸢qí⸣-bi-ti-⸢ki⸣1
Reverse
r 1r 1	[...]-⸢le⸣ x ⸢TI.LA⸣ ZI-tim x x x x x [x]
r 22	[...] ⸢na⸣-mar ka-bat-ti x (x) x x TI x x x x
r 33	[x] x x x DU a-na ši-rik-ti šur-⸢ki⸣ ŠAR^? RA^? x (x) re-ṣu-ti
r 44	⸢al⸣-ki-ma i-tap-pa-li i-da-a-a LÚ.KÚR-⸢ia⸣ né-e-ri SUḪUŠ GIŠ.GU.⸢ZA⸣ LUGAL-ti-ía
r 55	⸢a⸣-na u₄-me SÙ.MEŠ ki-ma KUR-i šur-ši-di ⸢ma⸣-nam-ma ina LUGAL.MEŠ DUMU.MEŠ-e-[a]	(r 5b) When this ceremonial wagon becomes dilapidated and old, may one of the kings, [my] descendants, restore its [dilapid]ated section(s). May he place (on it) the writing of my name with the writing of his name. [The god(dess) ...] will (then) list[en to] his prayers.
r 66	⸢e⸣-nu-ma GIŠ.at-ta-ri šu-a-ti in-na-⸢ḫu⸣-ma DU-ku la-ba-⸢riš⸣
r 77	[an]-⸢ḫu⸣-ut-su ⸢lu⸣-ud-diš ši-ṭir šu-mì-ia it-ti ši-ṭir MU-šú liš-⸢kun⸣
r 88	[...] x ik-ri-bi-(erasure)-šú i-šem-[mu-u]
r 99	[šá ... a]-⸢šar-šú⸣ ú-nak-ka-ru MU-šú i-šaṭ-⸢ṭa⸣-[ru]	(r 9) [(As for) the one who ...] changes its [pos]ition (or) writ[es] his (own) name, may [the god(dess) ...] not be pres[ent for] his prayers [and ... angri]ly [...]
r 1010	[... a-na] ⸢ni⸣-ši ŠU.II^*-šú a-a iz-⸢zi⸣-[zu-ma]2
r 1111	[... ag-gi]-⸢iš⸣ [x x]
	Lacuna	Lacuna

1taš-ru-ki^* “that you bestow”: The copy has taš-ru-KU.

2For possible restorations to this damaged concluding section of the inscription, see Ssi 7 v 13´–16´ and Ssi 19 lines 46–47.

Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Joshua Jeffers, 2020-22, 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/Q008353/.