rew, razed, burned with
fire. In my expedition marching westward of the banks of
the Chaboras to
32 the city Zibate of Zuhi, cities on the other side of the
Euphrates in the land of Laqai I overthrew, devastated and
burned with fire; their crops I seized 460 soldiers
33 their fighting men by (my) weapons I destroyed; I took
20 alive and impaled them on stakes;[12] on ships which I
had built--
34 in 20 ships which were drawn up on the sand at Haridi
I crossed the Euphrates. The land of Zuhaya and Laqai
35 and the city of Khindanai[13] to the power of their chariots
armies and hands trusted and summoned 6,000 of their
soldiers to engage in fight and battle.
36 They came to close quarters; I fought with them; I
effected their overthrow; I destroyed their chariots 6,500
of their warriors I smote down by my weapons; the remainder
37 in starvation in the desert of the Euphrates I shut up.
From Haridi in Zukhi to Kipina and the cities of Khin-danai[13]
38 in Laqai on the other side I occupied; their fighting men
I slew; the city I overthrew razed and burned. Aziel of
Laqai
39 trusted to his forces and took possession of the heights
of Kipina; I gave them battle; at the city of Kipina I
effected his overthrow; 1,000 of his warriors I slew;
40 his chariots I destroyed; spoil I carried off in plenty;
their gods I took away; for the preservation of his life he
took refuge on a rugged hill of Bizuru at the sources of
the Euphrates;
41 for two days I descended the river in pursuit: the relics
of his army with my weapons I destroyed; their hiding
place by the hills on the Euphrates I broke up;
42 to the cities of Dumite and Azmu belonging to the son of
Adini[14] I went down after him; his spoil, his oxen, his
sheep,
43 which like the stars of heaven were without number I
carried off.
In those days Ila of Laqai, his swift chariots and 500
soldiers
44 to my land of Assyria I transported; Dumutu and Azmu
I captured, overthrew, razed and burned; in the narrows of
the Euphrates I turned aside in my course and
45 I outflanked Aziel, who fled before my mighty power to
save his life. Ila; the Prince of Laqai, his army his chariots,
his harness,
46 I carried off and took to my city of Assur: Khimtiel of
Laqai I made prisoner in his own city. Through th