Esarhaddon 1010
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Lacuna | ||
1'1' | [(x)] x [... UN?].⸢MEŠ⸣ UNUG.KI BIR.MEŠ ⸢mu-ter?⸣ [...] | (1') [... the] scattered [people] of Uruk, who caused to re[turn ...]. |
2'2' | ina u₄-⸢me⸣-šu-⸢ma bu⸣-ul BIR.MEŠ šá d15 u d[na-na-a? (...)] | (2') At that time, the scattered herds of the goddesses Ištar and [Nanāya (...)], those scared away from their watering place and [having no] caretaker [(...)] I gathered, and 60,000 sheep and goats together with [...], (5′) 6,000 cows together with [their] herdsm[en (...)], a present of my grandfather Sargo[n (II) ...] which he/they had scattered with the herds, I brought back to [their] pla[ces (...)]. |
3'3' | šá ina maš-qat₆-ši-na gul-lu-ta-ma pa-qí-du [la i-šu-u? (...)] | |
4'4' | ||
5'5' | 6 LIM ÁB.⸢GU₄⸣.ḪI.A a-ki-i LÚ.na-⸢qi⸣-da-[ti-ši-na? (...)] | |
6'6' | ši-⸢rik-ti⸣ a-bi <a>-bi-ia LUGAL-⸢GIN⸣ [...] | |
7'7' | ||
8'8' | DUMU.⸢MEŠ m⸣sa-mi-ku DUMU.⸢MEŠ⸣ maʾ-x [...] | (8') The sons of Sāmiku, the sons of [..., the sons of] Bēl-rammēni, the sons of [..., (10′) the sons of] ..., and me, [Esarhaddon, (...)] ... and [I inscribed (their freedom) on] a tablet. [...] in the presence of the goddess Iš[tar ...] and the scattered herds to [...] in all lands [...] (15′) ... [...] I established [their] pri[vileged status (...)]. |
9'9' | [DUMU.MEŠ? m]⸢dEN⸣-ram-me-ni DUMU.MEŠ ⸢m⸣[...] | |
10'10' | [DUMU.MEŠ? m]x KUR-su-nu u ia-a-ti [...]1 | |
11'11' | [...] ⸢ú?⸣-rad-di-ma ṭup-⸢pi⸣ [(...) áš-ṭur? (...)] | |
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16'16' | ⸢ak⸣-ṣur ki-⸢di?⸣-[nu-us-su-un? (...)] | |
17'17' | (17') On account of this, [may] the goddess [Ištar, (...) look upon] my [good] deeds [with pleasure and ...] | |
18'18' | ⸢ep-še-ti-ia₅?⸣ [...] | |
Lacuna | ||
Left | ||
l.e. 1l.e. 1 | [...] ⸢ki?-ma⸣ šu-mì-ia-a-ma LUGAL e-piš é-an-na ni-bi-⸢ti⸣ [...] | (l.e. 1) [...] like my very name, the king who builds Eanna, the one who was chosen [by the god/goddess ...] |
1Could it be [DUMU.MEŠ m]⸢ba⸣-lat-su-nu, “[sons of B]alāssunu,” even though such a personal name is not otherwise attested?
2BIR*: the form of the sign differs from what is found in lines 1′ and 2′ and is closer to that of ḪAR in line 12′.
3Collation shows a-na, not a-UD of copy in LKU.
4With regard to the possible restoration of these lines, compare Frame, RIMB 2 p. 206 B.6.32.5 lines 14–15.
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/Q003382/.