Esarhaddon 052
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1'1' | x-⸢tum?⸣ x (x) [...] | (1') [...] ... [...] the gods of Sumer and Akkad [took] the roa[d to Babylon]. Like tired foals which ... [...] together in their assembly ... [...] (5′) splendid [...]. As for me, Esarhaddon, the one who renewed the [great] god[s], they decreed [my fate (and) I made them enter] Ba[bylon] in joy and rejoicing. I doc[ked Maumuša (“Boat of Command”)] at the quay of Babylon. (10′) [They entered] the orchards, groves, canals (and) g[ardens] of Ekarzagina, [a pure place] (where) the craft of the exorcist, “the washing of the mouth,” (and) “[the opening of] the mouth” (are recited) before the stars of heaven: the gods E[a, ...] |
2'2' | DINGIR.MEŠ KUR EME.⸢GI₇⸣ u URI.KI ḫar-⸢ra⸣-[an KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI iṣ-ba-tu] | |
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4'4' | ina ukkin-ni-šú-nu iš-te-niš ⸢ʾ⸣-[...]1 | |
5'5' | šit-ra-ḫu [...] | |
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8'8' | ina ul-ṣi u ri-šá-a-ti a-na ⸢KÁ⸣.[DINGIR.RA.KI ú-še-rib-šú-nu-ti] | |
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14'14' | x x [...] x [...]2 | |
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1UKKIN-ni-šú-nu “their assembly”: RINAP 4 (p. 113) has UKKIN-šú-nu.
2The traces of signs in this line were overlooked in the RINAP 4 print edition.
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/Q003281/.