Esarhaddon 1019
Obverse | ||
o 1–6o 1–6 | (Not preserved) | (1–6) (Not preserved) |
o 77 | [...] x x [...] | (7) (No translation possible) |
o 88 | [...] x DU MI ⸢LI⸣ [...] | |
o 99 | [...] x x x RU is-su-x [...] | |
o 1010 | (10) [...] ... and the[re was] no one who could find him [...] his [troops], who march at [his] side, [...] ... [they] star[ted out] towa[rd Me]mphis, their city; [... in the] city gates, its streets and [its] squares [... I] captured them and killed them with the sword [...]. (15) Jostled, I ... [...] thoroughbred(s) and the ... of chariots. [I heaped] their corpses upon each other in the city square [...]; I made piles with their heads [...]. | |
o 1111 | [... ERIM].⸢MEŠ⸣-šú a-li-ku i-di-[šú ...] | |
o 1212 | [...] x a-⸢na⸣ [URU.mi]-⸢in⸣-pi URU-šú-nu pa-ni-šú-nu iš-⸢tak⸣-[nu ...]1 | |
o 1313 | ||
o 1414 | ⸢ak⸣-mi-šú-nu-ti-ma i-na GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ a-nar-šú-nu-⸢ti⸣ [...] | |
o 1515 | i-tam-kip-ma mur-ni-is-qu ù ṭi-bi-iḫ GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ a-MES x [...] | |
o 1616 | ||
o 1717 | ||
o 1818 | (18) After I had prayed to the gods Aššur, Marduk, Šamaš, [...] and the great gods of heaven and netherworld, as m[any as there are, ...] and after they had granted my [heart’s] desire [...] I ... [...] into his plundered palace [...] his wives, his sons, and [his] daughters [... whose] skin, like his, was as black as pitch, [... the plunder] of his palace: eight thousand talents of silver, ore from [its] moun[tain, ... ta]lents of red gold, precio[us] stones, [...], | |
o 1919 | ||
o 2020 | ||
o 2121 | a-na É.GAL-šú maš-ši-iʾ-ti ú-x [...] | |
o 2222 | ||
o 2323 | ||
o 2424 | [šal]-⸢lat⸣ É.GAL-šú 8 LIM GUN KÙ.BABBAR SAḪAR.ḪI.A šad-[di-šú ...] | |
o 2525 | [...] ⸢GUN KÙ.GI ru⸣-uš-šú-⸢ú⸣ NA₄.MEŠ a-qar-⸢tú⸣ [...] | |
Reverse | ||
r 26r 26 | (26) [eve]ry kind of thing, vast amou[nts] of goods, [...] ... hundred and twenty large gold headdresses from the heads of [...] on which [were set] golden vipers and golden serpents [...] two pieces of ašgigû-stone, a creation of the mountain[s, ... (30) whose] weight was five talents each, [...] fifty thousand strong horses, broken [to the yoke, ...] sixty thousand fattened choice oxen (destined for) [his] prince[ly] banquets, [...] countless [...], sheep with tails of oxen, [...] and innumerable choice linen robes, fest[ive] garments, [... (35) ut]ensils of silver, gold, bronze, ebony, leather, ... [... everything] that there is, which ... [...] for his kingship [...] ..., livi[ng] creatures, [...] whose body was red and white, ... [...] ... [...] which have [the ...] of a stag and which no one [... which] cannot be fo[und i]n city or land [...] ... [...] | |
r 2727 | ||
r 2828 | šá ba-aš-mu ⸢KÙ⸣.GI ù MUŠ.MEŠ KÙ.GI ina ⸢muḫ⸣-[ḫi šak-nu ...] | |
r 2929 | 2.TA ši-bir-ti NA₄.aš-gì-gì.MEŠ nab-nit KUR-[e ...] | |
r 3030 | šá 5.TA.ÀM GUN.MEŠ šu-qul-⸢ta⸣-[šu-nu ...] | |
r 3131 | 50 LIM ANŠE.⸢KUR⸣.RA.MEŠ dan-nu-ti ṣi-mit-⸢ti⸣ [ni-ri ...] | |
r 3232 | ||
r 3333 | ||
r 3434 | ||
r 3535 | ||
r 3636 | ||
r 3737 | [...].⸢MEŠ šik-na-at na-piš⸣-[ti ...] | |
r 3838 | ||
r 3939 | [...] SU MA GAL A RI x [...] | |
r 4040 | [...] ⸢lu⸣-lim-mu šá-kin-ma mám-ma ul [...] | |
r 4141 | ||
r 4242 | [...] x x x x [...] | |
Lacuna |
1The usual writings of Memphis in the inscriptions of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal are URU.me-em-pi or URU.mi-im-pi, so the restoration [URU.mi]-⸢in⸣-pi is only an educated guess (Lambert, JJS 33 [1982] p. 62).
2ù “and”: The sign was omitted in RINAP 4 (p. 305).
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/Q003391/.