Saturday, April 25, 2026

Lines 92-97 of the Inscription of Idrimi (cf. Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32; Revelation 22:18-19)

  

92 ma-an-nu-um-me-e ALAM-ia an-ni-na-ti i-na-as-sah₂-š[u] 93 u₃ <<pi₂-ri-ih-šu li-il-qu₂-ut>> ANša-mu li-iz-zu-ur-šu 94 ša-ap-la-tuer-ṣe-tupi-ri-ih-šu li-il-qu₂-ut 95 DINGIR.MEŠ ša AN u KI LUGAL-ut-šu uma-at-šuki lim-du-du-šu 96 maan- nu-um-me-e u₂-na-ak-kar-šu i-ip-pa-₂-ši-<iṭ?> 97 dIM EN AN u KIer-ṣe-ti u₃ DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.GAL.E.NE šu-ma-šu 98a u₃ NUMUN.MEŠ-šu li-hal-liq i-na ma-ti-šu

 

(As for) anyone who might remove this statue of mine, may the Heavens (Akk. gloss: the Heavens) curse him! May the Underworld (Akk. gloss: the Underworld gather up his offspring! May the gods of the Heavens and the Underworld measure out his kingship and his land for him! (As for) anyone who might alter it (i.e., the statue?) (so that) it is effac<ed>, may the Storm God, the lord of the Heavens and of the Underworld (Akk. gloss: the Underworld), and the great gods make his name and his seed disappear from his land. (The Inscription of Idrimi II.92-96, in Jacob Lauinger The Labors of Idrimi: Inscribing the Past, Shaping the Present at Late Bronze Age Alalah [Ancient Near East Monographs 33; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2024], 6)

 

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