Esarhaddon 108
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| i 1'1' | [...] x [...]1 | (i 1') [...] ... [...] ... [...] matter. They were afflicted by [thie]ving (and) murdering. They were stealing from [the po]or (and) giving to the mighty; there was oppression (and) (i 10′) the taking of bribes in the city. Every day, without ceasing, they stole goods from each other, a son (i 15′) cursed his father in the street, a slave [...] to his owner, |
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| ii 1'1' | [...] x [...]2 | (ii 1') [...] ... [... His mood] became [furious. The Enlil] of the god[s, the lord of] the lands, plotted evilly to [scat]ter the land and people; (ii 10′) his heart schemed to level the land and to destroy its people. A bitter curse was set in his mouth. |
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| ii 15'15' | (ii 15') Bad omens concerning the destruction of mankind occurred in heaven and on earth. | |
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| iii 1'1' | [x (x)] x x | (iii 1') [...] ... [...] He (the god Marduk) brought about [the destruction] of the city (Babylon) and reed-marshes (iii 5′) and poplars grew profusely in it and threw out many offshoots. There were (iii 10′) birds of the heavens (and) fish of the apsû, without number, in it. |
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| iv 1'1' | [x] x [...] | (iv 1') [...] ... [good si]gn[s were established for me; in] heaven [and on earth], he (the god Marduk) constantly sent me his omen(s) concerning the (re)settl[ing of the city] (iv 5′) and the renovat[ion of its] shrines. I mustered all of the craftsmen throughout Karduniaš (Babylonia). They cut down the trees and reeds with axes (iv 15′) (and) tore out their roots. I diverted the waters of the Euphrates River, the washout, from its midst and (re)directed (them) to their previous channels. |
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| v 1'1' | x [x] x [...]4 | (v 1') Let ... [...] be placed in [his] mouth; let him (the god Marduk) bless me with a blessing of long days (and) order the well-being of my reign forever. |
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| v 8'8' | (v 8') Ayyāru (II), accession year of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria. | |
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1For the upper part of col. i, see text no. 109 i 1´–29´; col. i of this text follows text no. 109 i after a short lacuna.
2For the upper part of col. ii, see text no. 109 ii 1´–23´; col. ii of this text follows text no. 109 ii after a short lacuna.
3The CAD (A/1 p. 48 sub abbu) suggests that ab-bu is a scribal error and should be removed from the text.
4For the upper part of col. v, see text no. 109 v 1´–15´; col. v of this text follows text no. 109 v after a short lacuna.
5For some details on the accession year (šanat rēš šarrūti) date, see the on-page note to text no. 104 (Babylon A) vii 44–46 and Novotny, JCS 67 (2015) pp. 149–151.
Created by Erle Leichty, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011, 2015-16. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, and updated by him, 2015-16, 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/Q003337/.