Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Translations into English
and marching; the city I captured;[55] ... soldiers[56] ... with my
weapons I destroyed; 570 soldiers
112 I captured; 3,000 captives I took forth; soldiers alive I
caught; some I impaled on stakes;[57] of others
113 the eyes I put out: the remainder I carried off to Assur
and took the city as my own possession--I who am Assur-nasir-pal
mighty King, King of Assyria son of Tuklat-Adar, (Tuklat-Ninip)
114 great King, powerful King, King of legions, King of
Assyria son of Vul-nirari[58] great King, mighty King,
King of legions, King of Assyria, noble warrior, who in
the service of Assur his Lord proceeded, and among the
Kings of the four regions,
115 has no equal, a Prince[59] (giving) ordinances, not fearing
opponents, mighty unrivalled leader, a Prince subduer of
the disobedient, who all
116 the thrones of mankind has subdued; powerful King
treading over the heads of his enemies, trampling on the
lands of enemies, breaking down the assemblages of the
wicked; who in the service of the great gods
117 his Lords marched along; whose hand hath taken possession
of all their lands, laid low the forests of all of them,
and received their tributes, taking hostages (and) imposing
laws
118 upon all those lands; when Assur the Lord proclaimer
of my name, aggrandizer of my Royalty, who added his
unequivocal service to the forces of my government
119 I destroyed the armies of the spacious land of Lúlumi.
In battle by weapons I smote them down. With the help
of the Sun-god
120 and Yav, the gods in whom I trust, I rushed upon the
armies of Nairi, Kirkhi Subariya and Nirbi like Yav the
inundator;[60]
121 a King who from the other side the Tigris to the land of
Lebanon and the great sea has subjugated to his yoke the
entire land of Lakie and the land of Zukhi as far as the
city Rapik;
122 to whose yoke is subjected (all) from the sources of the
Zupnat to the frontiers of Bitani; from the borders of
Kirruri to Kirzani;
123 from beyond the Lower Zab to the town of Tulsa-Zabdani
and the town of Tul-Bari beyond the land of Zaban as far
as the towns of Tul-sa-Zabdani and
124 Tul-sa-Abtani; Harimu, Harutu in Birate of Kardunias[61]
to the borders of my land I added; (the inhabitants) of
the territory of Babite
125 with Khasmar among the people of my own country I
accounted: in the countries which I held I established a
deputy: they performed homage: submission
126 I imposed upon them; I, Assur-nasir-pal, great, noble, worshipper
of the great gods, generous, great, mighty
possessors of cities and the forests of all their domains,
King of Lords, consumer of
127 the wicked _taskaru_ invincible, who combats injustice,
Lord of all Kings, King of Kings, glorious, upholder of
Bar (Ninip) the warlike, worshipper
128 of the great gods, a King who, in the service of Assur
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