The Chaldean account of Genesis : $b Containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchsSmith, George
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The Chaldean account of Genesis : $b Containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchs
19. The warrior Dibbara to Itak who goes before him a word speaks:
20. Go also Itak, in the word thou hast spoken do according to all thy
heart.
21. Itak against the land of Khikhi (Phœnicia) set his face,
22. and the seven warrior gods unequalled
23. marched after him.
24. To the country of Khikhi to the mountains the warrior went,
25. his hand he also lifted and destroyed the land,
26. the land of Khikhi he counted as his own country.
The next fragments of the story are on a mutilated copy of the last
tablet, K. 1282. This tablet, as has been before stated, is only a
smaller supplemental one to include the end of the story, which could
not be written on the fourth tablet.
K. 1282.
Obverse.
1. From Dibbara ....
2. the gods all of them ....
3. the angels and spirits all ....
4. Dibbara his mouth opened and ....
5. a voice also the whole of you ....
6. I also in the first sin ....
7. in heart I cried out and ....
8. like a flock of sheep may ....
9. without the planting of boundaries against ...
10. like the spoiling of the country steadfast and ..
11. in the mouth of the high noble ....
12. and the place ....
Fifteen lines much broken here.
28. .... the land of Accad its strength ....
29. May one slay seven like ....
30. his cities to ruins and mounds thou dost reduce ....
31. his great spoil thou dost spoil, to the midst of ....
32. the gods of the country .... thou removest afar off ....
33. the god Ner and the God Serakh thou directedst ....
34. the countries their productions, the sea thou ..
35. its interior they destroyed ....
Four mutilated lines here.
Reverse.
1. For years untold the glory of the great lord the god ....
2. When Dibbara had cried out and to sweep the countries ....
3. had set his face
4. Itak his adviser had quieted him and stayed ...
5. gathering together his forces to the glorious one of the gods,
Merodach the son of (Hea).
6. In the hour of night he sent him, and when in the year ....
7. Not any one ....
8. .... and sent not down against ....
9. his .... also Dibbara received before ....
10. .... Itak who goes before him, the illustrious god ....
11. are all of them laid with him.
12. Any one who speaks of the warrior Dibbara
13. and that song shall glorify, in his place thou wilt keep (his)
canals,
14. .... never may he fall (?) ....
15. the heavens have caused the borders of (his) regions to increase.
16. Whoever the glory of my heroism shall recount,
17. an adversary never may he have.
18. The musician who shall sing, shall not die by the chastisement;
19. higher than king and prince may that man ascend.
20. The tablet writer who studies it (and) flees from the hostile,
shall be great in the land.
21. If in the places of the people, the established place, my name they
proclaim,
22. their ears I open.
23. In the house, the place where their goods are placed, if I Dibbara
am angry
24. may the seven gods turn him aside,
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