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56 their many houses I burned; many soldiers I took alive;
their spoil in abundance I carried off; the city I overthrew
razed and burnt with fire; the city Khudun
57 and 20 cities in its environs I took; their soldiers I slew;
their booty in cattle and sheep I carried off; their cities I
overthrew razed and burned; their boys
58 their maidens I dishonored; the city of Kisirtu a fortified
city of Zabini with 10 neighboring cities I took; their soldiers
I slew; their spoil
59 I carried off; the cities of Barai and Kirtiara, Bunisai together
with the province of Khasmar I overthrew razed and
burned with fire;
60 I reduced the boundaries to a heap, and then from the
cities of Arastua I withdrew: to the neighborhood of the
territory of Laara and Bidirgi, rugged land, which for the
passage
61 of chariots and an army was not adapted, I passed; to the
royal city Zamri of Amika of Zamua I drew near; Amika
from before the mighty prowess of my formidable attack
62 fled in fear and took refuge on a hill difficult of access: I
brought forth the treasures of his palace and his chariot;
from Zamri I withdrew and passed the river Lallu and to
the mountains of Etini,
63 difficult ground, unfit for the passage of chariots and
armies, whither none of the Princes my sires had ever penetrated;
I marched in pursuit of his army on the mountains
of Etini:
64 the hill I ascended: his treasure, his riches, vessels of copper,
abundance of copper, _kam_ of copper, bowls of copper,
pitchers of copper, the treasures of his palace and of his
storehouses,
65 from within the mountains I took away to my camp and
made a halt: by the aid of Assur and the Sun-god, the gods
in whom I trust, from that camp I withdrew and proceeded
on my march;
66 the river Edir I passed on the confines of Soua and Elaniu,
powerful lands; their soldiers I slew in numbers; their
treasure, their riches, _am_[10] of copper,
67 _kam_ of copper, _sapli_ and _namziete_ of copper,
vessels of copper
in abundance, _pásur_ wood, gold and _ahzi_, their oxen,
sheep, riches,
68 his abundant spoil, from below the mountains of Elani, his
horses, I exacted from him: Amika for the saving of his
life to the land of Sabue went up;
69 the cities Zámru, Arazitku, Amaru, Parsindu, Eritu, Zuritu
his fortified city, with 150 cities
70 of his territory I overthrew, razed, burned; the boundary
I reduced to a heap.
While in the vicinity of Parsindi I was stationed, the warlike
engines of the tribe of Kallabu
71 came forth against the place; 150 of the fighting men of
Amika I slew in the plain; their heads I cut off and put
them up on the heights of his palace;
72 200 of his soldiers taken by (my) hands alive I left to rot
on the wall of his palace:[11] from Zamri the battering-rams
and ...
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