Esarhaddon 035


Obverse
o 1o 1	[...] šá a-šar-šú ru-u-qu	(1) [...] whose country is remote, [... I be]sieged and plundered it.
o 22	[... al]-me-ma áš-lu-la šal-lat-su
o 33	[... LÚ].⸢EN⸣.URU šá URU.pa-ra-tuk^*-ka1	(3) [... the] chieftain of the city Partukka, [... Med]es whose country is remote, [...] large [thoroughbreds] (and blocks of) lapis lazuli, hewn from its [mountain, ... they] kissed my feet [... I imposed ...] upon them.
o 44	[... KUR.ma-da]-⸢a⸣-a šá a-šar-šú-nu SÙ
o 55	[... ANŠE.mur-ni-is-qí GAL].MEŠ NA₄.ZA.GÌN GAZ [KUR]-šú
o 66	[... iš-ši]-qu GÌR.II-ia
o 77	[... e-mid]-su-nu-ú-ti
o 88	[... pa]-⸢a⸣-ṭi KUR.bi-ik-ni	(8) [... b]orders Mount Bikni [...] mighty chieftains [...] I counted as [booty. I ...] the[m].
o 99	[... LÚ].⸢EN⸣.URU.MEŠ dan-nu-te
o 1010	[... šal-la]-tiš am-nu
o 1111	[...]-šú-nu-[ti]
	Lacuna	Lacuna
Reverse
rr	Lacuna	Lacuna
r 1'1'	[...] x x NI ḫar-ri x [...]2	(r 1') [...] ... water channels [...] ... like ... [...] ..., horses, he constantly [...] Kush, black Meluḫḫians, [...] ... with whom he formed a confederation [...] a difficult place [...] ... [...] ... [...] the goddess Erua ... [...] ...
r 2'2'	[...]-lu-tú GIM KIŠ GAB [x]
r 3'3'	[...]-ḫup-pi ANŠE.KUR.MEŠ it-ta-na-[x]
r 4'4'	[...] KUR.ku-u-si LÚ.me-luḫ-ḫe-e GE₆.⸢MEŠ⸣
r 5'5'	[...]-⸢ti⸣ šá ik-te-ra it-ti-šú
r 6'6'	[...] x a-šar nam-ra-ṣi
Edge
e. 1e. 1	[...]-le-e
e. 22	[...] x-mu
e. 33	[...] ^dA.EDIN ṢAR TE
e. 44	[...]-⸢tum^?⸣

1tuk*: the text has NI. It is possible that this is a variant writing of the geographic name, thus pa-ra-dik-ka for pa-ar-tuk-ka.

2Or read ḫar-ri as ḫur-ri (“hole, ravine”).

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/Q003264/.