Esarhaddon 101
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rr | Lacuna | |
r 1'1' | [...] (traces) [...]1 | (r 1') [...] ... [...]. I am mighty, I am almighty, I am lordly, I [am] proud, [I am strong], I am [important], I am glorious, (and) [I have no] equ[al] among all the kings. [Ch]osen by the gods Aššur, Nabû, (and) Marduk; called by the god Sîn, favorite of the god [Anu, (rev. 5′) beloved] of the queen — the goddess Ištar, goddess of every[thing] — (and) the merciless [weapon] that makes the ene[my] land tremble, [am I. A king, expe]rt in battle and war, the one who slaughters the set[tlements of his enemies, the one who kills] his [foe]s, the one who dissolves [his] ad[versaries, [the one who makes the unsub]missive [bow down, (and) the one who rules over] all of the peo[ple] of the world — |
r 2'2' | ⸢dan-na-ku⸣ dan-dan-⸢na⸣-ku e-tel-la-ku ⸢šit-ra-ḫa⸣-[ku geš-ra-ku] | |
r 3'3' | ⸢kab-ta⸣-ku šur-ru-ḫa-ku ina gi-⸢mir LUGAL⸣.MEŠ šá-⸢ni-na⸣ [ul i-šá-ku] | |
r 4'4' | [ni]-⸢šit⸣ AN.ŠÁR dMUATI d⸢ŠÚ? ni-bit d⸣30 ⸢mi-gir⸣ d[a-nim]2 | |
r 5'5' | ||
r 6'6' | [GIŠ.TUKUL] ⸢la⸣ pa-⸢du-ú mu-<<ú>>-rib⸣ KUR nu-kúr-⸢ti⸣ [a-na-ku-ma] | |
r 7'7' | [LUGAL le]-⸢ʾe-um⸣ qab-li u ⸢ta-ḫa-zi⸣ ša-giš da-[ád-me na-ki-re-šú] | |
r 8'8' | ||
r 9'9' | [mu-šak-niš la] ⸢kan⸣-šu-⸢ti⸣-šú šá nap-ḫar kiš-šat ⸢UN⸣.[MEŠ i-pe-lu] | |
r 10'10' | [AN.ŠÁR dUTU dMUATI u dŠÚ] ⸢EN⸣.MEŠ-⸢ia MAḪ.MEŠ⸣ [ša la in-nen-nu-u] | (r 10') [The gods Aššur, Šamaš, Nabû, and Marduk], my lofty lords, [whose word cannot be changed, decreed] as [my destiny] an [un]rivaled [kingship. ...] truth ... [...] ... [...] |
r 11'11' | ||
r 12'12' | [...] ⸢kit⸣-tu x [...] | |
r 13'13' | [...] x x [...] | |
Lacuna |
1The 2011 print edition of RINAP 4 overlooked this line and, therefore, the line count now differs by one line; rev. 2´–13´ = rev. 1´–12´ of the old edition.
2dMUATI “the god Nabû”: The updated reading is based on collation; RINAP 4 (p. 190) has dAG.
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/Q003330/.