Esarhaddon 130

Obverse
11

[ana dEN.LÍL] LUGAL DINGIR.MEŠ qar-du šá? sa?-kip? nak?-ri? tam-ḫa-ra šá it?-tak?-[...]

(1) [For the god Enlil], king of the gods, valiant, who drives out the enemies in battle, [...] the sublime, who walks at the side of the king his favorite the one who conquers the enem[ies ...] ... which is in Nippur (Duranki) great lord, [his lord]:

22

[...] ṣi-i-ru a-lik i-di LUGAL mi-ig-ri-šú ka-šid a-a-[bi ...]

33

[...]-si- šá -reb DUR.AN.KI EN GAL-i [EN-šú]


44

[mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM].NA LUGAL GAL-ú LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR--šur.KI LUGAL kib-rat er-bet-[ti]

(4) [Esarhadd]on, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), [governor of] Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, selected by the steadfast heart of the god En[lil];

55

[GÌR.NÍTA] TIN.TIR.KI LUGAL KUR-šu-me-ri u URI.KI i-tu-ut kun lìb-bi dEN.[LÍL]


66

[šá ul-tu] ṣe-eḫ-ri-šú ana AN.ŠÁR dEN.LÍL d30 dUTU dIŠKUR dAMAR.UTU dAG dU.GUR u DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ EN.MEŠ-[šú]

(6) [who from] his childhood [trus]ted in the gods Aššur, Enlil, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Marduk, Nabû, Nergal, and the (other) great gods, [his] lords, (who) allowed him to attain his desire; (the one who) recognized their power,

77

[it-tak]-lu-ma ni-iz-mat-su ú-šak-šid- i-mu-ru da-na-an-šú-un


88

[a-na nu-uḫ-ḫu] lìb-bi DINGIR-ti-šú-nu u nu-up-pu- ka-bat-ti-šú-nu GIŠ.MI-šú-nu da-ru-ú it-ru-ṣu UGU-[šú]1

(8) (the one) over [whom] (the gods) extended their eternal protection [in order to appease] their divine [he]art(s) and set their mind(s) at rest;


99

[ina e-muq AN.ŠÁR] dEN.LÍL dEN u DUMU dEN DINGIR.MEŠ ti-ik-li-šú kul-lat KUR.KUR i--lu-ma

(9) [(the one who) by the might of the gods Aššur], Enlil, Bēl (Marduk), and the Son-of-Bēl (Nabû), the gods, his helpers, ruled over all lands and (10) made [all ru]lers submissive to him; [the one who (re)constructed the temple of the god ]šur, renovated Ekur, (re)built Esagil and Babylon, [completed] the sanctuaries and cult centers, (and) (re)confirmed (their) sattukku offerings; [the king during the days of] whose [reign] the great lord, the god Marduk, became reconcil[ed] to Babylon (and again) took up [his] residence [in Esagil], his [palace]; (the one who) made [the god Great-Anu] enter [into his city Dēr and his temple Edim]galkalama (“House, Great Bond of the Land”) and had (him) sit upon (his) [eternal] dai[s; ...]

1010

[gi-mir ma]-li-ku ú-šak-ni-šu še-pu--šu

1111

[ba-nu-u É AN].ŠÁR mu-ud-diš é-kur e-piš é-sag-íl u TIN.TIR.KI

1212

[mu-šak]-lil -re-e-ti u ma-ḫa-zu mu-kin sat-tuk-[ku]

1313

[LUGAL šá ina UD.MEŠ BALA]-šú EN GAL-ú dAMAR.UTU a-na TIN.TIR.KI sa-li-mu ir-šu-[u]

1414

[ina é-sag-íl É.GAL]-šú ir-mu-ú šu-bat-[su]

1515

[da-num-GAL-ú ana URU-šú BÀD.KI u É-šú é-dim]-gal-kalam-ma ú-še-rib-ú-ma ú-še-ši-bu pa-rak [da-ra-a-ti]

1616

[...] -reb [...]

Lacuna
1'1'

[...] x x [...]

(1') [...] ... [...] and [make] his name (and) his descendant(s) [disappear] from [every land]!

2'2'

[...]-ma MU-šú NUMUN-šú ina [nap-ḫar KUR.KUR li-ḫal-liq]

1The restoration at the beginning of the line is based on text no. 128 (Nippur A) line 6.


Created by Erle Leichty, Grant Frame, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/ribo/Q003359/.