Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 94. (Budapest, 2001)

EVERLING, JÁNOS: Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions of the Museum of Fine Arts

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41 (beer?), strong beer, the mountain beverage,

42 pure wine, wine from Izalla,

43 Tu'immu,

44 Simmini,

45 Hilbunu,

46 Aranabani,

47 Suhu,

48 Bït-kubâti

49 and from various places, like water in a river,

50 countless

51 for the table of Marduk and Zarpanïtu, my lords. I applied shinning gold for plaster to his (Marduk's) lordly dwelling,

52 I coated the Kahilisu with bright gold,

53 I decorated the temple for Zarpanïtu, my lady. I coated with gold

54 the doorjambs, bars, and threshold(?) of the Ezida,

55 shrine of Nabu in the Esagil, the seat of the god of the king, (who is) the king of gods in the heaven and on the earth. I made the temple as resplendent as daylight.

56 [...] I built anew Ezida, the legitimate temple in Borsippa. I roofed (the temple) with cedar (beams),

57 I coated it with bright gold. I completed the building using gold, silver, precious stones, copper, musukkanu-wood and cedar wood.

58 Nabu and (the goddess) Nanaja in joy and rejoicing, in the happiness of their hearts moved into it. Every day one fattened and perfect gumähu-hvll, and 16 pasi'J/u-sheQp are the sacrifice' for the 41 Cf. CAD K 579b: (a choice kind of beer or wine). 42 Cf. CAD D 120b. 43 Cf. RGTC 8 184: a region in the hills north of the valley of the Häbür. 44 Cf. RGTC 8 314: nA Tu'ime. E. Forrer (Provinzeinteilung, 59) suggested to identify it with mod. Ta'üm, 10 km northeast of Idlib, basing his identification on the assumption that Tu'imme was a centre of a Hamathean district. Yet, it is not explicitly stated in the only nA source mentioning Tu'imme (Rost, Tigl. Ill, 24, 148) that it belonged to the kingdom (later province) of Hammath. Moreover, according to an inscription from SfTre which was not yet known to Forrer, Tw'm (KAI 222,34 same place as Tu'imme, see A. Dupont-Sommer, Les inscriptions araméennes de Sfiré, Paris 1958, p. 49) belonged to MtT, the last king of Arpad. It is very likely therefore, that Tu'imme has later become one of the districts of the Assyrian province of Arpad, founded by Tiglath Pileser III. The identification of Tu'imme with Ta'üm is unlikely in my opinion as the latter was probably within the territory of Hamath/Hadrach (see N. Na'aman, WO 9, 1977/8, pp. 228ff), seeing that it was situated between Zitänu (mod. Zëtân) and Ellitarbi (mod. Tërib), both belonging to Hamath (see N. Na'aman, W09, 1977/8, pp. 233ff; Cf. K. Kessler, 1^08, 1975/6, pp. 6Iff). It seems to me that Tu'ime/Tu'immu is to be identified with mod. Tawami, 5 km north of the Hamathean place (poss. border point) Tërib, thereby lying within the territory of Arpad (27 km southwest of Aleppo which certainly belonged to Arpad). 45 Cf. RGTC 8 280: Simyra in Lebanon (for the various suggestions concerning its localization see R. Braidwood, Syria 21, 1940, pp. 183ff; pp. 218ff

.). The most likely identification at the moment is Tall Kazal (see K. Kessler, WO 8, 1975/6, 60

5,) with previous lit.). 46 Cf. RGTC 8 159: Mod. Halbün. 47 Cf. RGTC 8 29: Tall Hassaka west of the confluence of the Häbür and the Gaggag rivers. 4S Cf. RGTC 8 274: A region on the middle Euphrates bordering with Babylonia. 49 Cf. RGTC 8 95: According to L.D. Levine, Iran 11 (1973), p. 24, it has been in the Diyala area and was placed by Sennacherib under the jurisdiction of the governor of Arrapha. 50 Cf. CAD M/2 154a. 51 Cf. CAD N/2 205b. 52 Cf. CAD S/l 248a. 53 Cf. George, op. cit. (Note 20) p. 107, ka.hi.li.su, "Gate Sprinkled with Luxuriance", by-name of é.hal.an.ki, the seat of Zarpanîtum in é.sag.

il at Babylon. 54 Cf. CAD S 300a. 55 Cf. George, op. cit., p. 160, é.zi.da 2, seat of Lugaldimmerankia and cella of Nabu in é.sag.il at Babylon. 56 Cf. CAD N/2 215b. 57 Cf. CAD S 239b. 5S Cf. CAD M/2 238a. 1 I