Esarhaddon 1019

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(7) (No translation possible)

(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 [...].

(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, [...],

(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 [...] ... [...]