Esarhaddon 107
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| v 22 | [šá 50 MA.NA].TA.ÀM1 | |
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| vi 1vi 1 | (vi 1) I bui[lt] (and) comple[ted Nēmed-Enlil, its outer wall, (and) had] (it) filled with [spl]endor, (making it) an object of wonder for [al]l of the people. | |
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| vi 77 | (vi 7) [I] returned [the plun]dered [god]s of the lands [from As]syria [and the land] Elam [to] their [place] and [I set up proper procedures in a]ll of [the cult centers]. | |
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| vii 1vii 1 | (vii 1) I restored [their interrupted privileged status] that had fallen into disuse. I wrote anew the tablet of their exemptions. I opened roads for them in all directions so that they could establish an important position by having (commercial) relations with all countries. | |
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| vii 1818 | (vii 18) [I re]stored order to [the dist]urbances at Kish and [ma]de [li]ght shine forth for the [con]fused people. | |
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| vii 2525 | (vii 25) [The god Mard]uk and [the goddess Zar]panī[tu, the gods], | |
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| viii 1'1' | (viii 1') I am [indeed] the provider. | |
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| viii 3'3' | (viii 3') Let me enlarge my [fa]mily, gather my relatives, (and) extend my progeny so that they branch out widely; let him (the god Marduk) make the foundation of the throne of my priestly office be as secure as a great mountain; let my reign endure as long as heaven and earth; let me stride beaming daily in joy, gladness, happiness, shining face, (and) [ha]ppy mood; (and) [let] a happy fate, a good fate, (one) for the lengthening of [the d]ays of my [reign, the prote]ction of [the th]rone of my [pries]tly office, (and) [the well-being of] my offspring [be pl]aced [in] their (the gods’) [mouths]. | |
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| viii 43'43' | (viii 43') [The sc]epter | |
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| ix 1'1' | (ix 1') Let them allow there to be in my land rain[s] and floods, successful harvests, an abundance of grain, plenty, and prosperity, and let them store (it) in piles of grain. | |
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| ix 13'13' | (ix 13') I had foundation inscriptions made of silver, gold, bronze, lapis lazuli, alabaster, basalt, pendû-stone, elallu-stone, (and) white limestone, (as well as) inscribed objects of [ba]ked clay, and (then) I depicted on them hieroglyphs representing the writing of my name. I wr[ote] on [them] the might of the great hero, the god Marduk, (and) the dee[ds that] I had do[ne], [my] pious wo[rk], (and) I pl[aced] (these inscriptions) in [the foundations] (and) fo[r far-off days]. | |
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| x 1'1' | (x 1') May he (a future king) r[ead an inscription] wri[tten in] my [name, and] anoi[nt] (it) with o[il], ma[ke] an of[fering], (and) return (it) to it[s] place. The god Marduk, king of the gods, will (then) hear his prayers. | |
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| x 15'15' | (x 15') (As for) the one who changes (an inscription) written in my name, defac[es my] representatio[ns], an[nuls] the privileged sta[tus of] Babylo[n], (and) bre[aks] the cove[nant of] the lord of lo[rds], may the god Mar[duk], the Enl[il of] the god[s], the lord of [the lands], lo[ok with] fu[ry on him and among [all] | |
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1There is probably not sufficient space at the beginning of v 2 to restore KÙ.BABBAR “silver.” It is uncertain if this inscriprion (intentionally or accidentally) omitted this word or if it appeared before KÙ.GI “gold” in v 1, in place of nab-nit, which in this case would have been the final word in col. iv. lem: X; X
2According to two Babylonian chronicles, Esarhaddon returned the plundered gods of Agade on the tenth of Addaru (XII) 674 BC; see, for example, Grayson, Chronicles, pp. 81–82 no. 1 iii 36–38. This datable event provides a terminus post quem for the composition of this inscription.
3At present, this passage is unique to this inscription.
4The line is preserved on the prism, but only the blank space between the now-missing DINGIR and MEŠ remains.
5li-šar-šid “let him make secure”: The revised reading is based on collation; the signs are not li-ter-ra “let them (the foundations) become” as transliterated in the 2011 print edition of RINAP 4. lem: X; X
6Based on other lines, both a-[na] and a-[na ṣa-at] are possible.
Created by Erle Leichty, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011, 2015-16. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, and updated by him, 2015-16, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/ribo/Q003336/.