Esarhaddon 053


Obverse
oo	Lacuna	Lacuna
o 1'1'	[...] x x [...]	(1') [...] ... [...] the god(dess) Nin[...] ... [... his] important city [... (5′) ...] his ..., the contributions of (his) eter[nal] dais; [I] brought before him [choice oxen], fattened sheep, strings of fish [and birds, the abundance of the apsû] which never lessens, [...] honey, ghee, suitable for his pure sattukku offerings. (10′) I gave [Šamaš]-šuma-ukīn, (my) son, my offspring, as a present to the god Marduk and the goddess Zarpanītu. I presented (them) with tribute, payment, abundant gifts, (and) unceasing contributions as my [gifts], and I looked after Adediḫegal (Edadiḫegal).
o 2'2'	[...] ⸢^dnin⸣-[...]
o 3'3'	[...]-⸢šú⸣ lu-u ⸢ra⸣-[...]
o 4'4'	[...] URU tak-bit-⸢ti⸣-[šú ...]
o 5'5'	[...] x-le-e-šú ⸢i⸣-rib pa-rak ⸢da⸣-[ra-a-ti]
o 6'6'	[GU₄.MAḪ-ḫi bit-ru-ti] ⸢šu⸣-uʾ-e ma-ru-ti iz-ḫe-⸢et KU₆⸣
o 7'7'	[u MUŠEN ḪÉ.GÁL ZU.AB] šá la i-šu-u mi-ṭi-tú
o 8'8'	[...] ⸢LÀL⸣ Ì.NUN.NA si-mat sat-⸢tuk⸣-ki-šú eb-bu-ti
o 9'9'	[ú-ṭaḫ]-⸢ḫa⸣-a ma-ḫar-šú
o 10'10'	[^m^dGIŠ.NU₁₁]-⸢MU⸣-GI.NA DUMU ṣi-it lìb-bi-ia a-na ^dAMAR.UTU
o 11'11'	⸢ù ^d⸣zar-pa-ni-tum a-na ši-rik-ti áš-ruk
o 12'12'	⸢GUN man⸣-da-at-tu IGI.SÁ-e šad-lu-ti e-rib la ba-ṭa-li
o 13'13'	[kàd]-⸢ra⸣-a-a ú-šam-ḫir-ma a-dé-di-ḫé-gál ap-qid
o 14'14'	[LÚ.ra-am-ki] ⸢LÚ.pa⸣-ši-ši an-gub-bé-⸢e⸣ na-ṣir pi-⸢riš-ti⸣1	(14') [I placed at their service ramku-priests], pašīšu-priests, ecstatics, those initiated in secret rites, [purification priests], āšipu-priests, lamentation priests, (and) [singers, who have] mas[tered (their) entire] craft.
Reverse
r 1r 1	[LÚ.i-šip-pí] ⸢LÚ.KA⸣.PÌRIG LÚ.GALA.⸢MEŠ LÚ⸣.[NAR]2
r 22	[ša gi-mir um]-⸢ma-nu-ti ḫa-am⸣-[mu ma-ḫar-šu-un uš-ziz] (traces)
r 33	[...]-⸢ti⸣	(r 3) (No translation possible)
r 44	[...]-⸢un⸣
r 55	[...]-⸢ti⸣
r 66	[...]-⸢ti⸣
r 77	[...]-⸢tum⸣
r 88	[...]-⸢i⸣
	Lacuna	Lacuna

1The interpretation of angubbû (or dingirgubbû) is based on CAD A/1 p. 118.

2LÚ.GALA.⸢MEŠ⸣ “lamentation priests”: The revised reading is based on collation; RINAP 4 has LÚ.GALA.

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/Q003282/.