Esarhaddon 1016


Obverse
oo	Lacuna	Lacuna
o 1'1'	⸢ZAG⸣ [...]	(1') ... [...] ... [...] perfect [lambs] that had no [black] spo[ts ...] I did not impart (it) to the [wise] diviners, [(but rather) I wrote (it) on a tablet, put (it) in an envelope], (5′) sealed (it), (and) gave (it) to them. I did not sl[eep all night ... I] waited for the shining lord of lor[ds, the god Šamaš, ... To ob]tain (correct) decisions, han[ds were raised (praying) ... I pray]ed to Šamaš and Adad (and) [made] skilled [diviners kneel down before them].
o 2'2'	⸢UB^?⸣ ŠE^? ⸢TÚ^?⸣ [...] x x [... UDU.SILA₄.MEŠ]
o 3'3'	⸢šuk⸣-lu-lu-te ⸢šá⸣ la i-šu-u ⸢ti-rik⸣ [ṣu-ul-me ...]
o 4'4'	⸢ul⸣ ú-pat-ti šá DUMU.MEŠ LÚ.ḪAL.⸢MEŠ⸣ [pal-ka-a ḫa-si-sún ina ṭup-pi áš-ṭur e-ri-im]
o 5'5'	⸢ab-ri⸣-<im> a-din-šú-nu-ti ul aṣ-[lul kal mu-ši ...]
o 6'6'	[ú]-⸢qa⸣-aʾ-a nam-ru EN EN.⸢EN⸣ [^dUTU ...]
o 7'7'	[a-na] ⸢šu⸣-te-šur de-e-ni ni-iš qa-⸢ti⸣ [na-ši-ma ...]
o 8'8'	[ú-ṣal]-⸢li⸣ ^dUTU u ^dIŠKUR en-qu-u-⸢te⸣ [DUMU.MEŠ LÚ.ḪAL ú-šak-me-sa šá-pal-šú-un]
Reverse
r 1r 1	⸢a⸣-di qa-tu ú-kin-nu ib-ru-ú x [...]	(r 1) Until they had assigned a station (and) inspected ... [...] I was reverent with supplicating lips [...]. The Igīgū gods took counsel and decid[ed ...] encouraging, propitious [omen]s [... (rev. 5) ...] ... the gods Šamaš and Adad ... [...] ... will rule the land ... [...] ... [...]
r 22	šu-te-mu-qu šap-ta-a-a pal-ḫa-⸢ku^?⸣ [...]
r 33	⸢im⸣-tal-li-ku ^dí-gì-gì ip-ru-⸢su⸣ [...]
r 44	[UZU].⸢MEŠ⸣ ti-kil-ti šal-mu-u-te [...]
r 55	[x x] x-ni ^dUTU u ^dIŠKUR ⸢šu⸣-[...]
r 66	[...] x-⸢ka⸣ i-be-el KUR x [...]
r 77	[...] x (x) x x [...]
	Lacuna	Lacuna

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/Q003388/.