Esarhaddon 030
Obverse | ||
oo | Lacuna | |
o 1'1' | [...] x x x [...]1 | (1') [...] ... [...] when they were coming [to] Nineveh [...] when they were clothing him in [linen (and) garments with multicolored trim, putting] gold rings [on his hands (and) ...] his [...], (then) he (no longer) said ‘woe!’ and (no longer) utter[ed cries of mourning]. |
o 2'2' | [... a-na] ⸢NINA⸣.KI il-⸢lak-ú⸣-[ma ...] | |
o 3'3' | [lu-bul-ti GÙN GADA] ⸢ú⸣-lab-ba-šú-uš ḪAR KÙ.⸢GI ú⸣-[rak-ka-su rit-ti-šú] | |
o 4'4' | [...]-šú u₈-a ul iq-bi-ma ul iṣ-⸢ru-uḫ⸣ [si-pit-tu?]2 | |
o 5'5' | [a-na e-muq ra-ma-ni-šú it]-⸢ta⸣-kil-ma um-man-šú KARAŠ-su ⸢id⸣-[ke-e-ma] | (5') He (Nabû-zēr-kitti-līšir) trusted [in his own strength] and [mustered] his army (and) camp, besieged [Ningal-iddin, a servant who] was loyal to me, and cut off [his escape route. I mustered] my [army] and took the direct r[oute] to the Sealand. [Nabû-zēr-kitti-līšir, son of] Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan), the rebel, the traitor, [heard of the approach of my army] and fled like a fox to the land Elam. (10′) [Because] he failed to keep [the oath of the god Aššur], his lord, they killed him with the sword in the midst of the land Elam. [Naʾid-Marduk] saw [what] they had done to his brother in Elam and he came [to Assyria], before me, and kissed my feet. I made [the domain of his brother] subject [to hi]m and imposed my lordly tribute on him. |
o 6'6' | [a-na mdnin-gal-SUM.NA ARAD da]-⸢gíl⸣ pa-ni-ia ni-i-tu il-me-šú-ma iṣ-ba-ta [mu-ṣa-a-šú] | |
o 7'7' | [ad-ke-e-ma ERIM.ḪI].⸢A⸣-ia uš-te-šir-ma a-na KUR tam-tim aṣ-ṣa-bat ⸢KASKAL⸣.[II]3 | |
o 8'8' | [mdAG-NUMUN-ZI-SI.SÁ DUMU md]AMAR.UTU-A-SUM.NA ba-ra-nu-u na-bal-kàt-ta-nu | |
o 9'9' | [a-lak ERIM.ḪI.A-ia] ⸢iš?⸣-me?-ma a-na KUR.ELAM.MA.KI še-la-biš in-na-bit | |
o 10'10' | [áš-šú ma-mit daš-šur] ⸢EN⸣-šú la iṣ-ṣur-u-ma qé-reb KUR.e-lam-ti i-na-ru-šú ina GIŠ.TUKUL | |
o 11'11' | [mna-ʾi-id-dAMAR.UTU šá a]-⸢na ŠEŠ⸣-šú qé-reb KUR.e-lam-ti e-pu-šú e-mur-ma | |
o 12'12' | [a-na KUR aš-šur].⸢KI⸣ a-di maḫ-ri-ia il-lik-am-ma ú-na-šiq GÌR.II-ia | |
o 13'13' | [ri-du-ut ŠEŠ-šú a-na pa]-⸢ni⸣-šú ú-šad-gíl-ma man-da-ti EN-ti-ia e-mid-su | |
o 14'14' | [mEN-BA-šá ša ina 12] ⸢KASKAL⸣.GÍD qaq-qa-ru qé-reb a-gam-me GI.AMBAR.MEŠ šit-ku-nu šub-⸢tu⸣ | (14') [(As for) Bēl-iqīša, whose residence] is located [twelve leagues] distance in the midst of swamps (and) canebrakes, [the awe-inspiring terror of] my [lordship] overwhelmed him and unprovoked fear fell upon him. He came before me [to serv]e (me) and (now) he kisses [my] feet. |
o 15'15' | [pu-ul-ḫi me-lam-me EN-ti]-⸢ia is⸣-ḫu-pu-šú-ma ḫat-tu ra-ma-ni-šú in-qut-⸢su⸣-[ma] | |
o 16'16' | [áš-šú e-peš] ⸢ARAD⸣-ti a-di maḫ-ri-ia il-lik-am-ma ú-na-šaq GÌR.⸢II⸣-[ia] | |
o 17'17' | (17') [(The people of) the city Arzâ], whose king Asuḫīli threw off [my] yoke, [I threw th]em [into fetters] and [brought] (them) to Assyria. | |
o 18'18' | [ina bi-re-ti ad-di-šú]-nu-ti-ma a-na KUR aš-šur.KI ⸢ú⸣-[ra-a] | |
o 19'19' | [mte-uš-pa KUR.gi-mir-a-a ina] ⸢KUR⸣.ḫu-bu-uš-na a-di gi-⸢mir ERIM⸣.[ḪI.A-šú] | (19') [I struck with the sword Teušpâ, a Cimmerian], with [his] entire army, [in] the (territory of) the land Ḫubušnu, (and) [I imposed upon him] a heavy [tribute]. |
o 20'20' | [ú-ra-as-si-ib ina GIŠ.TUKUL man-da]-⸢tu⸣ ka-bit-tu [e-mid-su] | |
Lacuna | ||
Reverse | ||
rr | Lacuna | |
r 1'1' | [...] x x x [...]4 | (r 1') [...] ... [... Baʾalu, king of Ty]re, who dwells [in the midst of the sea, ... who truste]d in [...] and who threw off [my] yo[ke, ...] the god Aššur, king of the gods, and the splendor of my lordship (rev. 5′) [...] kneeling and beseeched [my] lord[ship ... ...] heavy [tribu]te, his daughters with (their) dowri[es, ...] all of his [annu]al [giving] which he had stopped, [...] (and) he kissed my feet. [...] I took away from him cities of his (that were on) on dry land [... I] established and I returned to Assyrian territory [...] I assigned to Bādi-[...] ... |
r 2'2' | [... mba-ʾa-lu LUGAL URU.ṣur]-⸢ri a-šib⸣ [MURUB₄ tam-tim ...] | |
r 3'3' | [... it-tak]-⸢lu⸣-ma is-lu-u ⸢ni⸣-[ri-ia ...] | |
r 4'4' | [...] ⸢AN⸣.ŠÁR MAN ⸢DINGIR⸣.MEŠ u nam-ri-ri EN-ti-⸢ia⸣ [x x] | |
r 5'5' | [...] x ⸢ka⸣-mis-ma ú-ṣal-la-a ⸢EN⸣-[u-ti]5 | |
r 6'6' | [... man-da]-⸢tu⸣ ka-bít-ti ⸢DUMU.MUNUS.MEŠ-šú it-ti nu-dun⸣-[né-e]6 | |
r 7'7' | ||
r 8'8' | [...] ú-na-áš-šiq GÌR.II-ia7 | |
r 9'9' | ||
r 10'10' | ||
r 11'11' | [...] IGI m⸢ba-di⸣-x ⸢ú-šad-gíl⸣ | |
r 12'12' | [...] x-ni-šú | |
Lacuna |
1The 2011 print edition of RINAP 4 overlooked this line and, therefore, the line count of the obverse now differs by one line; obv. 2´–20´ = obv. 1´–19´ of the old edition.
2The restoration at the end of the line is based on CAD Ṣ p. 100; note that ṣarāḫu occurs most commonly in the Š-stem and infrequently in the G-stem; compare text no. 1 (Nineveh A) i 57: ú-šá-aṣ-ri-ḫa si-pit-tu, “I cried out in mourning.”
3⸢KASKAL⸣.[II] “r[oad]”: The updated reading is based on collation; RINAP 4 (p. 75) has [ḫar-ra-nu].
4This line was overlooked in RINAP 4 and, therefore, the line count of the reverse now differs by one line; rev. 2´–12´ = rev. 1´–11´ of the 2011 edition.
5⸢EN⸣-[u-ti] “[my] lord[ship”: The new restoration is based on text no. 1 (Nineveh A) ii 61; compare RINAP 4 p. 76, which has EN-[ti-ia].
6⸢nu-dun⸣-[né-e] “(their) dowri[es]”: The updated reading is based on collation and similar passages in the inscriptions of Ashurbanipal.
7There are erasures before GÌR.II and ia.
8The signs ut and na are written over erasures.
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/Q003259/.