Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 015
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] ... [...] situated [... a]ll of my army ... [...] ... army of the enemy, I called and ... [...] (5′) which I constantly did ... [... Taharqa, king of] Kush, together with [his] entire army [... I counted] his [wives], his concubines, his sons, [... everything] else, which was without number, [as] boo[ty ...] I assigned [...] to my servants. A march of [...] my ... [...] Assyria [...]
Source: Leichty, E. 2011. The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC). RINAP 4. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap4/Q003244/
Why it matters
Records Esarhaddon's claim to have captured the household of Taharqa — wives, concubines, sons — after his Egyptian campaign, corroborating Assyrian dominance over the 25th Dynasty in the 670s BCE.
Transliteration
[...]-⸢ʾa-a⸣ [...] / [...] šit-ku-nu [...] / [... na?]-gab ERIM-a ⸢ma?⸣-[...] / [...]-lu ERIM KÚR al-si-ma MUNUS.x [...] / [...] e-te-né-ep-pu-šu si-[...] / [... mtar-qu-u LUGAL] ⸢KUR⸣.ku-u-si a-di gi-mir ⸢ERIM⸣-[šú ...] / [... MUNUS.É.GAL].⸢MEŠ-šú MUNUS⸣.ERIM.É.GAL.MEŠ-šú DUMU.MEŠ-⸢šú⸣ [...] / [... mim-ma] ⸢šum⸣-šú šá ⸢ni⸣-ba la i-šú-ú šal-[la-tiš am-nu ...] / [...] ⸢ARAD⸣.MEŠ-ia ap-qid-ma ma-lak x [...] / [...] x x x-⸢ia? KUR aš-šur.KI?⸣ [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003244.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P450411). source
Translation excerpted from Leichty, E. 2011. The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC). RINAP 4. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap4/Q003244/.
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