Esarhaddon 2004
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1'1' | (1') [...] king [... Zakūtu/Naqīʾa ... wi]fe ... [... Sennach]erib, king of the world, [king of Assyria, daughter-in-law of Sargon (II), king of the world, k]ing of [Assyria, mother of Esar]haddon, king of the world (and) king of [Assyria]; | |
2'2' | [... MUNUS].É.GAL x [...] | |
3'3' | ||
4'4' | [kal-lat mMAN-GI.NA LUGAL kiš-šá-ti] ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR [KUR aš-šur.KI] | |
5'5' | [AMA maš-šur]-⸢ŠEŠ⸣-SUM.NA LUGAL kiš-[šá]-ti LUGAL KUR [aš-šur.KI-ma] | |
6'6' | [daš-šur d30] ⸢d⸣UTU dAG u dAMAR.UTU d15 šá NINA.KI ⸢d⸣[15 šá LÍMMU-DINGIR.KI] | (6') [the gods Aššur, Sîn], Šamaš, Nabû, and Marduk, Ištar of Nineveh, (and) [Ištar of Arbela] glad[ly placed Esarha]ddon, my offspring, upon the throne of his father, [... whose] good ... [...] they made pre-[eminent ...] who marched [... from the] Upper [Sea] to the Low[er] Sea (and) who does not [have] an equal (therein); (and) who flattened his [foes] and fastened lead-[ropes] on the kings of the four quarters — |
7'7' | [maš-šur-ŠEŠ]-SUM.NA DUMU ṣi-it lìb-bi-ia ina GIŠ.GU.ZA AD-šú ṭa-⸢biš⸣ [ú-ši-bu] | |
8'8' | [...] x dam-qu ú-še-ṣu-ú a-na ⸢re⸣-[še-ti] | |
9'9' | ||
10'10' | ||
11'11' | [... ga-re]-e-šú is-pu-nu-ma LUGAL.MEŠ šá kib-rat LÍMMU-tim id-du-u ⸢ṣer⸣-[re-e-tú] | |
12'12' | (12') He (Esarhaddon) gave [to me as] my lordly [share] (and) as a gift [the inhabitants of] conquered [lands], foes plundered by [his bow]. I made them carry [hoe (and) ba]sket, and they [made bricks]. | |
13'13' | ||
14'14' | [GIŠ.al-lu] ⸢tup⸣-šik-ku ú-šá-áš-ši-šú-nu-ti-ma ⸢il⸣-[bi-nu SIG₄] | |
15'15' | [qaq-qa-ru pu-ṣe-e ina] ⸢MURUB₄ URU šá NINA⸣.KI ku-[tal É d30 u dUTU] | (15') [I ... a cleared tract of land in] the citadel of (the city of) Nineveh, be[hind the temple of the gods Sîn and Šamaš], |
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1It is unclear if line 1´ is the first or the final line of the inscription.
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/Q003406/.