Ashurbanipal 055
| Obverse | ||
| 11 | a-na-ku mAN.ŠÁR-DÙ-A MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AN.ŠÁR.KI ina me-lul-⸢ti⸣ [NUN-ti-ia UR.MAḪ] ⸢ez⸣-zu šá EDIN-šú TA ŠÀ GIŠ.na-bar-ti | (1) I, Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria — while (carrying out) [my princely] spor[t], they had [a fi]erce [lion] that was born in the steppe (lit. “of its plain”) brought out of a cage and, while on foot, I pierced (it) three times with arrow(s) [(but)] its life did not come to an end. Through the command of the god Palil, the king of the steppe who had generously gr<anted> me power (and) vir[ilit]y, I subsequently stabbed it with my iron belt-dagger [(and)] it laid down (its) life. |
| 22 | ú-še-ṣu-nim-ma ina GÌR.II-ia ina GIŠ.KAK.⸢TI 3-šú as-ḫul?⸣-[(ma?)] ⸢na-piš⸣-ta-šú ul iq-ti | |
| 33 | ina qí-bit dIGI.DU LUGAL EDIN ša dun-nu zik-[ru]-⸢tu⸣ ú-šat-<li-ma>-⸢an-ni⸣1 | |
| 44 | EGIR ina GÍR AN.BAR šib-bi-ia as-ḫul-šu-[(ma)] na-piš-tú iš-kun |
1ú-šat-<li-ma>-⸢an-ni⸣ “he had gr<anted> me”: According to W. Boutcher’s drawing (Or. Dr. 5 no. 4), the LI and MA signs would have appeared where the lion’s head protrudes into the epigraph. The scribe responsible for writing out the epigraph appears to have omitted those two signs since he did not have sufficient space to write out li-ma-an-ni at the end of the line.
Created by Jamie Novotny and Joshua Jeffers, 2015-18. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2015–16, 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/rinap/Q003754/.