Esarhaddon 082
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11 | KUR maš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN GAL MAN dan-⸢nu⸣ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ | (1) The palace of Esarhaddon, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad — (with regard to) the armory, which is in Kalḫu, that Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), a ruler who came before me, had built, I incorporated unused land as an addition (to it), raised the terrace with massive stones from the mountains, (and) built palatial halls for my lordly pleasure on it — son of Sennacher[ib], king of the world (and) king of Assyria, descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world (and) king of Assyria. |
22 | u URI.KI KUR ma-šar-te šá qé-reb URU.kàl-ḫa šá mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KUR aš-šur1 | |
33 | A maš-šur-PAP-<<UŠ>>-A NUN a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-šú qaq-qa-⸢ru ki⸣-šub-ba-a | |
44 | ki-ma a-tar-tim-ma lu aṣ-ba-ta ina eš-qi NA₄ KUR-e ⸢tam⸣-la-⸢a⸣ uš-mal-li | |
55 | É.GAL.MEŠ a-na mul-ta-u-⸢te⸣ be-lu-ti-⸢ia⸣ ab-ta-ni ṣe-ru-uš-šú | |
66 | A md30-PAP.MEŠ-⸢SU⸣ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A m⸢MAN⸣-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma2 |
1URU.kàl-ḫa “Kalḫu”: The reading is based on collation (photograph); the print edition of RINAP 4 has URU.kal-ḫa
2Frahm notes that the unusual placement of Esarhaddon’s genealogy should probably be regarded as a mistake by the individual cutting the inscription on the stone blocks. The text of line 6 should be placed immediately before KUR ma-šar-te in line 2; compare text no. 81.
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/Q003311/.