Arik-din-ili 8


Obverse
	Lacuna
1'1'	[...] ki [...]	(1') [...] ... he brought [...], 100 of their sheep, 100 of their oxen [...] to (his) city, Aššur.
2'2'	[...] ni^? x x ⸢uru^?⸣ [x] ke e a-di x x x [...]
3'3'	[...] 100 ṣe-ni-šu-nu 1 ME GUD.MEŠ-šu-nu [...]
4'4'	[...] a-na URU ^da-šur ub-la i-na u₄-mi-šu-ma [...]	(4'b) At that time, [...] ... 7,000 storage-containers, in their mouths/by their command, in front of [...] ... a large battering-ram, he made. Arik-dīn-ili [...] … he gave his gift to the goddess Ištar [... for] his life [...].
5'5'	[...] x-te 7 LIM PISAN i-na KA-ši-na a-na IGI ša [...]
6'6'	[...] x ia-šu-ba GAL-ma e-pu-uš ^mGÍD-DI-DINGIR [...]
7'7'	[...] x-na NÍG.BA-šu a-na ^diš₈-tár [...]
8'8'	[...] x-ṭi-šu i-qiš [...]

9'9'	[...] gap-šu ^mGÍD-DI-DINGIR BUR₁₄ ša ^me-si-ni [...]	(9') [...] powerful, Arik-dīn-ili carried off the harvest of Esini [...]. He killed Esini, 33 chariots of ... [...] with the .... Arik-dīn-ili led in [...] ... of his chariots. The chariots [... the city Ar]nuna of the land Nigimḫi, the fortress of the land ... [...] he shut up [Esi]ni in the city Arnuna. [...] he destroyed its [...] (and) its city gate. [...] Arik-dīn-ili scattered ... [...] all of [... took] an oath to Arik-dīn-ili ... [...].
10'10'	[... e^?]-ki-ma ^me-si-ni 33 GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ ša x [...]
11'11'	[...] x i-na ši-di-te i-duk ^mGÍD-DI-DINGIR i-na [...]
12'12'	[...] x RU-te ša GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ-šu ir-di GIŠ.GIGIR.[MEŠ ...]
13'13'	[... ar]-nu-na ša KUR.ni-gim-ḫi BÀD KUR.iš-[...]
14'14'	[... ^me-si]-ni i-na URU.ar-nu-ni e-si-ir x [...]
15'15'	[...]-x-šu KÁ.GAL-šu ú-sa-ri-iḫ x [...]
16'16'	[...] x ^mGÍD-DI-DINGIR ú-sà-pi^*-iḫ x x [...]
17'17'	[...] gab-be ma-me-ta a-na ^mGÍD-DI-DINGIR x [...]

18'18'	[...] x 1 MA.NA.TA.ÀM ŠE iš-ši-kín ^m⸢GÍD⸣-[DI-DINGIR ...]	(18') [...]. One mina of (copper) was set (as the price) of grain. Ari[k-dīn-ili ... the cities] ...turiḫa, (and) Ḫabaruḫa, which to [... the city] Kutila, he moved away their army [...] He [… the cities (...)] Tarbiṣi, (and) Kudina. He gave to them [...]. [He …] the city Kutila [...] ...
19'19'	[...] x-tu-ri-ḫa URU.ḫa-ba-ru-ḫa ša a-na [...]
20'20'	[...] ⸢URU⸣.ku-ti-la ERIM.MEŠ-šu-nu is-su-⸢ḫa⸣ [...]
21'21'	[...] ⸢URU⸣.tar-bi-ṣi URU.ku-di-na ú-[...]
22'22'	[...]-ta id-di-na-šu-nu URU.ku-ti-la [...]
23'23'	[...]-pe-lu i-na UD-šu-ma i-na 90 GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ-šu [...]	(23'b) At that time, with 90 of his chariots, [...] he crossed the lower [rivers]. He killed 600 men of the city Ḫi[...] ... with ... (As for) Remaku [...] ... for the punishment of the city Nagabbilḫi, he killed (him). [...].
24'24'	[...] ⸢šap⸣-li-a-te e-bir 6 ME LÚ.MEŠ URU.ḫi-[...]
25'25'	[...] x x i-na ši-di-te i-duk ^mre-ma-ku [...]
26'26'	[...] x a-na ár-ni URU.na-gab-bil-ḫi i-duk [...]

27'27'	[...] i da MUNUS.KALA.GA 2 MA.NA.TA.ÀM ŠE i-ši-⸢kín⸣ [...]	(27') [...] famine. Two minas of (copper) was set (as the price) of grain. He plundered [...] ... from the land Ḫalaḫḫu forever ... [...] ... He killed 254,000 men [...]. He brought about their defeat. [He carried their] captives [bound]. He brought [... to] (his) city, Aššur.
28'28'	[...] x-e iš-tu KUR.ḫa-la-ḫi a-di ṣa-ti x [...]
29'29'	[...] x iḫ-bu-ta 2 ME 54 LIM ⸢LÚ⸣.[MEŠ ...]
30'30'	[...] i-duk dáb-da-šu-nu iš-ku-un šal-⸢lu⸣-[su-nu ...]
31'31'	[... ana] URU ^da-šur ub-la i-na u₄-mi-šu-ma 1 ME^? [...]	(31'b) At that time, 100 [...] he rebelled. Asini, until [...] ... [...] ... [...]
32'32'	[... it]-ta-bal-kat ^ma-si-ni a-di x [...]
33'33'	[...] x a giš x su a x x [...]
34'34'	[...] x x x x x x [...]
	Lacuna

Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based 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/riao/Q005737/.