Esarhaddon 010
Obverse | ||
11 | mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA LUGAL ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.⸢KI GÌR⸣.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI LUGAL KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI | (1) Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, [w]ho knows how to greatly revere the gods and goddesses, the one who (re)constructed the temple of the god Aššur (and) (re)built Esagil (and) Babylon; son of Sennacherib, king of the world (and) king of Assyria; descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, (and) king of Sumer and Akkad — |
22 | ||
33 | ||
44 | DUMU md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-⸢šur⸣.KI DUMU mLUGAL-GI.NA ⸢LUGAL ŠÚ⸣ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI | |
55 | ||
66 | (6) [...] from former days in the courtyard of Emašmaš [...] its area was too small; moreover, the temple of the god Šamaš [...] ... [...] | |
77 | [...] x ⸢ṣe-eḫ⸣-rat šu-bat-su ⸢ù⸣ É dUTU | |
88 | [...] (traces of tops of signs) | |
Lacuna | ||
1'1' | x x (x) [...]1 | (1') ... [...] ... [...] may a future ruler, [whom ...] name to shepherd the land and people, read an inscription written in my name when [those] shri[nes be]come old and (5′) dilapidated, and may he anoint (it) with oil, make an offering, write my name with his name, (and) return (it) to its place. (Then) may the gods Sîn and Šamaš order good things for him monthly, without ceasing. |
2'2' | e-x [...] | |
3'3' | ||
4'4' | a-na SIPA-ut KUR u UN.MEŠ i-⸢nam⸣-bu-ú zi-kir-šú ⸢e-nu-ma eš-re⸣-[e-ti ša-ti-na? i]-⸢lab-bi⸣-ra-ma | |
5'5' | e-na-ḫa MU.SAR-ú ši-⸢ṭir⸣ MU-ia li-mur-ma Ì.GIŠ lip-šu-uš UDU.SISKUR BAL-qí | |
6'6' | ||
7'7' | ||
Date | Date | |
8'8' | ⸢ITI.KIN⸣.dINANNA UD.20.KAM li-⸢mu⸣ mAD-ra-mu LÚ.SUKKAL GAL-ú | (8') U[l]ūlu (VI), twentieth day, eponymy of Abi-rāmu, grand vizier (sukkallu rabû) (677 BC). |
1The print edition of RINAP 4 overlooked the faint, unidentifiable traces in this line and, therefore, the line count of this edition differs from the 2011 version by one line; 2´–8´ = RINAP 4 1´–7´.
Created by Erle Leichty, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011, 2017. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, and updated by him, 2017, 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/rinap/Q003239/.