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Esarhaddon 017
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') king of the wor[ld, king of Assyria]; son of Sennacherib, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria — (5') (As for) the temple of the goddess Ištar of Nineveh, his lady, the one who (re)constructed the temple of the god Aššur (and) (re)built Esagil and Babylon, for the preservation of his life, the lengthening of his days, the well-being of his offspring, (and) the overthrow of his enemies, he (Esarhaddon) ordered the dilapidated (temple) torn down [...] ... [...]
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/Q003246/
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Transliteration
⸢LUGAL kiš⸣-[šá-ti LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI] / DUMU md30-⸢ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba⸣ / LUGAL GAL-ú LUGAL dan-nu / LUGAL kiš-šá-ti LUGAL KUR aš-šur.⸢KI⸣ / ⸢É⸣ dINANNA ša NINA.KI GAŠAN-⸢šú⸣ / ⸢ba⸣-nu-u É daš-šur DÙ-ìš é-sag-⸢gíl⸣ / ù KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI a-na TI ZI.MEŠ-šú / ⸢GÍD⸣.DA UD.MEŠ-šú šá-lam NUMUN.MEŠ-šú / sa-kap KÚR.MEŠ-šú an-ḫu-tú ana / ma-aq-tu iq-bu / x-⸢BAR ú⸣-[...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003246.
Attribution
Image: 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/Q003246/..
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/Q003246/.
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