Sîn-šarru-iškun 11

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a-na-ku md30-LUGAL-GAR-un MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ LUGAL KUR -šur.KI A m-šur--A MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR -šur.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI A m-šur-PAP- MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR -šur.KI GÌR.NÍTA .DINGIR.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI A md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU1

(1) I, Sîn-šarra-iškun, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria; son of Ashurbanipal, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; son of Esarhaddon, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; son of Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, ruler who has no rival; descendant of Sargon (II), great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad:

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MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR -šur.KI NUN la šá-na-an ŠÀ.BAL.BAL mLUGAL-GI.NA MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR -šur.KI GÌR.NÍTA .DINGIR.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI ina SAG LUGAL-ti-ia ki-i ṭè-me DINGIR-ma2

(2b) At the beginning of my kingship (and) in accordance with the will of the god(s), I wanted to (re)build the temple of the god Nabû that is inside Baltil (Aššur). In a favorable month, (on) an auspicious day, I laid its foundation(s) and I mixed its kalakku-mortar with beer (and) wine. Its brick maker(s and) hod carrier(s) spent their days in rejoicing (and) singing. I built (and) completed (it) from its foundation(s) to its crenellations.

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a-na - É dAG šá -reb bal-til.KI lìb-bi ub-la ina ITI DÙG.GA u₄-mu še-me-e te-me-en-šú ad-di-ma ina KAŠ.SAG GEŠTIN ka-lak-ka-šu ab-lul la-bin SIG₄.MEŠ-šú3

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za-bíl ku-dúr-ri-šú ina e-le-li nin-gu-tu ub-ba-la UD-šu-un TA UŠ₈-šú a-di gaba-dib-bi-šu ar-ṣip ú-šak-lil4

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ITI.DU₆. lim-mu msa-ʾi-lu .GAL MUḪALDIM

(5) Tašrītu (VII), eponymy of Saʾīlu, the chief cook.

1Ex. 11 omits MAN GAL “great king” and MAN ŠÚ “king of the world” after m-šur-PAP- “Esarhaddon.”

2Ex. 11 omits MAN GAL “great king” after mLUGAL-GI.NA “Sargon (II).”

3Ex. 12 has [(x) x]-šur? after bal-til.KI, “Baltil (Aššur).” Could this possibly be [(URU).]-šur? as a gloss for Baltil?

4As noted by V. Donbaz and A.K. Grayson (RICCA p. 60), this line in ex. 11 is garbled. It contains about six or seven inconstruable signs (see the photo in Schmitt, Ischtar-Tempel pl. 231 no. 755).


Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-22. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2018, 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/Q003872/.