Babylonian and Assyrian Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 377 pages of information about Babylonian and Assyrian Literature.

Babylonian and Assyrian Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 377 pages of information about Babylonian and Assyrian Literature.
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     the mountains of Matni I captured; 700 of their fighting
     men I smote down with my weapons;
111 their spoil in abundance I carried off; 50 cities of Dira I
     occupied; their soldiers I slew; I plundered them; 50 soldiers
     I took alive; the cities I overthrew
112 razed and burned; the approach of my Royalty overcame
     them; from Pitura I withdrew, and went down to Arbaki
     in Gilhi-Bitani;
113 they quailed before the approach of my Majesty, and deserted
     their towns and strong places:  for the saving of
     their lives they went up to Matni a land of strength
114 I went after them in pursuit; 1,000 of their warriors I left
     in the rugged hills; their corpses on a hill I piled up;
     with their bodies the tangled hollows
115 of the mountains I filled; I captured 200 soldiers and cut
     off their hands; their spoil I carried away; their oxen,
     their sheep
116 without number, I took away; Iyaya, Salaniba, strong
     cities of Arbaki I occupied; the soldiers I slew; their spoil
     I carried off
117 250 towns surrounded with strong walls in the land of
     Nairi I overthrew demolished and reduced to heaps and
     ruins; the trees of their land I cut down; the wheat
118 and barley in Tuskha I kept.  Ammiba’al the son of
     Zamani had been betrayed and slain by his nobles.[21] To
     revenge Ammiba’al
119 I marched; from before the vehemence of my arms and
     the greatness of my Royalty
120 they drew back:  his swift chariots, trappings for men and
     horses one hundred in number,
121 horses, harness, his yokes, tribute of silver and gold with
     100 talents
122 in tin, 100 talents in copper, 300 talents in annui, 100 kam
     of copper, 3,000 kappi of copper, bowls of copper, vessels
     of copper,
123 1,000 vestments of wool, nui wood, eru wood, zalmalli
     wood, horns, choice gold,
124 the treasures of his palace, 2,000 oxen, 5,000 sheep, his
     wife, with large donations from her; the daughters
125 of his chiefs with large donations from them I received. 
     I, Assur-nasir-pal, great King, mighty King, King of legions,
     King of Assyria,
126 son of Tuklat-Adar great and mighty King, King of
     legions, King of Assyria, noble warrior, in the strength of
     Assur his Lord walked, and whose equal among the
     Kings
127 of the four regions exists not;[22] a King who from beyond
     the Tigris up to Lebanon and the Great Sea
128 hath subjugated the land of Laki in its entirety, the land
     of Zuhi with the city of Ripaki:  from the sources of
     the Ani
129 (and) the Zupnat to the land bordering on Sabitan has he
     held in hand:  the territory of Kirrouri with Kilzani on the
     other side the Lower Zab
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