Esarhaddon 058
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| i 1i 1 | (i 1) [Esarhaddon], king of the wor[ld], king of Ass[yria], piou[s] prin[ce], belove[d of] the god Aššu[r] and the goddess Mu[llissu], upon whom (i 10) you placed your protection and whom you safeguarded for kingship, all of [whose] enemies (ii 1) [you killed and] whose [wi]sh [you caused (him) to attain, up]on whose [father’s] throne you placed in greatness, and whom you entrusted with the lordship of the lands; (ii 10) son of Sennacherib, king of the world, [kin]g of Assyria, the one who made the statues of the god Aššur and the great gods; (iii 1) descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, who is assiduous towards the shrines of the god Aššur and the goddess Mullissu — | |
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| iii 88 | (iii 8) The former temple of the god Aššur that Shalmaneser (I), son of Adad-nārārī (I), king of Assyria, a ruler who came (iii 15) before me, had built: Five hundred and eighty-six years passed and (then) it became dilapidated. | |
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| iii 1717 | 9 UŠ | |
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| iv 1iv 1 | ⸢46⸣ | |
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| iv 55 | (iv 5) I did not change the [lo]cation of that temple and I laid its foundations on gold, silver, (iv 10) precious stones, aromatics, (and) ḫašūru-resin, and I secured its brickwork. (v 1) I built (and) completed (it), (and) greatly made (it) an object of wonder for the people. | |
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| v 77 | (v 7) I built (it) for my life, the prolongation of my days, the securing of my reign, the well-being of my seed, the safeguarding of the throne [of] my priestly office, the overthrowing of my enemies, the prospering [of the harvest of] Assyria, (and) the well-being of Assyria. | |
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1Text no. 59 does not contain Sennacherib’s epithet e-piš ṣa-lam AN.ŠÁR ù DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ, “the one who made the statues of the god Aššur and the great gods.”
2Text no. 59 does not contain the epithet muš-te-eʾ-ú áš-rat da-šur₄ ù dNIN.LÍL, “who is assiduous towards the shrines of the god Aššur and the goddess Mullissu.”
3From context, na-ṣir and sa-kip must be infinitives in the status constructus, although the expected forms would be naṣār and sakāp; this was noted already by Borger (Asarh. p. 7). One or both of these forms are attested also, for example, in text nos. 59 (ii 17 and 19), 104 (vi 32; =Babylon A), 105 (viii 38; =Babylon C), 106 (v 13; = Babylon E), and 111 (vii 5´), as well as in the inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (for example, Borger, BIWA p. 15 Prism F i 14 and Prism A i 20). Because CVC-signs could have any vowel, one would be inclined to read these as na-ṣàr and sa-kapₓ. However, these values are, at present, not commonly attested or accepted phonetic values in Neo-Assyrian sources and therefore I have retained the values ṣir and kip for the MUŠ and KIB signs respectively, since these are commonly known and accepted. Note that the phonetic value ṣàr for the MUŠ sign is attested only in Nuzi texts (von Soden and Röllig, Das akkadische Syllabar4 p. 14*).
Created by Erle Leichty, 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/rinap/Q003287/.