Esarhaddon 1010


Obverse
	Lacuna
1'1'	[(x)] x [... UN^?].⸢MEŠ⸣ UNUG.KI BIR.MEŠ ⸢mu-ter^?⸣ [...]	(1') [... the] scattered [people] of Uruk, who caused to re[turn ...].
2'2'	ina u₄-⸢me⸣-šu-⸢ma bu⸣-ul BIR.MEŠ šá ^d15 u ^d[na-na-a^? (...)]	(2') At that time, the scattered herds of the goddesses Ištar and [Nanāya (...)], those scared away from their watering place and [having no] caretaker [(...)] I gathered, and 60,000 sheep and goats together with [...], 6,000 cows together with [their] herdsm[en (...)], a present of my grandfather Sargo[n (II) ...] which he/they had scattered with the herds, I brought back to [their] pla[ces (...)].
3'3'	šá ina maš-qat₆-ši-na gul-lu-ta-ma pa-qí-du [la i-šu-u^? (...)]
4'4'	ú-paḫ-ḫi-ir-ma 60-šu LIM ⸢US₅^?⸣.UDU.ḪI.A a-ki-[i ...]
5'5'	6 LIM ÁB.⸢GU₄⸣.ḪI.A a-ki-i LÚ.na-⸢qi⸣-da-[ti-ši-na^? (...)]
6'6'	ši-⸢rik-ti⸣ a-bi <a>-bi-ia LUGAL-⸢GIN⸣ [...]
7'7'	šá it-ti bu-ul is-pu-ḫu ú-ter áš-[ru-uš-šu-un (...)]
8'8'	DUMU.⸢MEŠ ^m⸣sa-mi-ku DUMU.⸢MEŠ⸣ ^maʾ-x [...]	(8') The sons of Samiku, the sons of [..., the sons of] Bēl-rammēni, the sons of [..., the sons of] ..., and me, [Esarhaddon, (...)] ... and [I inscribed (their freedom) on] a tablet. [...] in the presence of the goddess Iš[tar ...] and the scattered herds to [...] in all lands [...] (15′) ... [...] I established [their] pri[vileged status (...)].
9'9'	[DUMU.MEŠ^? ^m]⸢^dEN⸣-ram-me-ni DUMU.MEŠ ⸢^m⸣[...]
10'10'	[DUMU.MEŠ^? ^m]x KUR-su-nu u ia-a-ti [...]1
11'11'	[...] ⸢ú^?⸣-rad-di-ma ṭup-⸢pi⸣ [(...) áš-ṭur^? (...)]
12'12'	[...] x ina ma-ḫar ^d⸢15⸣ [...]
13'13'	⸢u ana^? bu^?⸣-ul BIR^*.MEŠ a-⸢na⸣ [...]2
14'14'	ina gi-mir KUR.KUR x [...]
15'15'	LU^? ⸢LÚ^?⸣ Ú MU a-na x [...]3
16'16'	⸢ak⸣-ṣur ki-⸢di^?⸣-[nu-us-su-un^? (...)]
17'17'	a-⸢na⸣ šat-ti ⸢^{d^?}⸣[15^? ...]4	(17') On account of this, [may] the goddess [Ištar, (...) look upon] my [good] deeds [with pleasure and ...]
18'18'	⸢ep-še-ti-ia₅^?⸣ [...]
	Lacuna
Left
l.e. 1l.e. 1	[...] ⸢ki^?-ma⸣ šu-mì-ia-a-ma LUGAL e-piš é-an-na ni-bi-⸢ti⸣ [...]	(l.e. 1) [...] like my very name, the king who builds Eanna, the one who was chosen [by the god/goddess ...]

1Could it be [DUMU.MEŠ ^m]⸢ba⸣-lat-su-nu, “[sons of B]alāssunu,” even though such a personal name is not otherwise attested?

2BIR*: the form of the sign differs from what is found in lines 1′ and 2′ and is closer to that of ḪAR in line 12′.

3Collation shows a-na, not a-UD of copy in LKU.

4With regard to the possible restoration of these lines, compare Frame, RIMB 2 p. 206 B.6.32.5 lines 14–15.

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/Q003382/.