Esarhaddon 112
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| i 1'1' | (i 1') ... E[sarhaddon], great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of [Assyria], king of the kings of [(Lower) Egypt], Upper Egypt, and [Kush], (i 5´) king of the [four] quarters, the king who [has] no rival in all of [the lands]; son of Sennach[erib, king of Assyria, descendant of Sargon (II), grea]t [king], mighty king, king of the world, king of [Assyria, governor of Babylon], king of the land of Sumer [and Akkad, ...] | |
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| i 8'8' | ⸢bu-kúr⸣ d30-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-[SU LUGAL KUR aš-šur ŠÀ.BAL.BAL LUGAL-GIN] | |
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| i 11'11' | [...] x [...] | |
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| iii 1'1' | [...] x | (iii 1') [...] ... [...] ... [...] placed before them [...] the temples, all of them, (iii 5´) [...] ... that were ruined [...] brought [...] ... [...] and the god Šamaš |
| iii 2'2' | [...]-ti | |
| iii 3'3' | [... ú]-⸢kin⸣ ma-ḫar-šú-un | |
| iii 4'4' | [...] ⸢É⸣.KUR ka-li-šú-un | |
| iii 5'5' | [...]-⸢a⸣-ti na-du-ú | |
| iii 6'6' | [...] x ub-la | |
| iii 7'7' | [...]-a-nu | |
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| iv 1'1' | (iv 1') [of Sumer] and Akkad, [which pre]viously no one had [...; the who] piles up heaps of grain, who drove out hunger and famine during his days (iv 5´) and established prosperity, who brought to the land stable prices, bountiful harvests, (and) an abundance of grain. | |
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| iv 8'8' | (iv 8') In whose reign the the disobedient Elamite, the evil enemy, the powerful offspring of the gods, (iv 10) rose up against the wishes of the gods and set out to attack the ... of the cult centers of Akkad. He mustered [...] the people of his wide land, ... [...] and [...] men and women; (iv 15´) they frequently entered [...] steppe and open plain [...] ... | |
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| iv 12'12' | [...] x UN.MEŠ KUR-šú ra-pa-áš-ti | |
| iv 13'13' | [...] x-qu-ti id-kam-ma | |
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| iv 15'15' | [...] ⸢i⸣-te-né-er-ru-bu | |
| iv 16'16' | [...] ⸢EDIN?⸣ u ba-ma-a-ti | |
| iv 17'17' | [...] x ⸢ú⸣ KUR | |
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| v 1'1' | GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ x x x x [(...) a-a-bi] | (v 1') [...] ... weapons [...] may they kill [enemies] (and) cut down foes. |
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| v 3'3' | (v 3') May the god Nergal, lord of pestilence and murd[er], stretch out his protection over them, (v 5´) spare the lives of their people, (and) save them, their army, and their camp from anguish. | |
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| v 8'8' | (v 8') May the god Adad, the canal inspector of heaven and netherworld, make plentiful rains (and) widespread floods (v 10´) long lasting in their land. | |
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| v 10'10' | (v 10'b) Night and day, may the great gods of heaven and netherworld [constantly bless th]em with joy in their steadfast hearts. May a god [intercede] with (another) god for them. May the[ir] days be long (and) their years [be many]. | |
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| v 15'15' | (v 15') In Esagil, the palace of [the gods, may the be full of the abundance of life]. May their offspring thrive so that [they] branch out wide[ly]. | |
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| v 17'17' | (v 17') Wherever the gods Sîn and Šamaš [..., may they ...] with the black-headed people forever. | |
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| v 19'19' | (v 19') Whoever among the future kings, [my descendants, who] arises to gove[rn the land, may he read an] inscription written in [my] name [and] anoint (it) [with o]il, [make] an offerin[g], write [m]y [name] with his name, [(and) repeatedly praise my] dee[ds]. [ | |
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| v 24'24' | (v 24') [May the gods, as many a]s whose names I have invoked] <on> this stele], | |
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Created by Erle Leichty, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003341/.