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Esarhaddon 070
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) The palace of Esarhaddon, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, son of Sennacherib, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, descendant of Sargon (II), king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad — an amphora filled with oil fit for princes, [which] was with the vast possessions (and) goods without number, the treasures of the palace of Abdi-Milkūti, the king of Sidon — which is in the midst of the sea — that my great hand(s) captured with the help of the gods Aššur, Sîn, Šamaš, Bēl, Nabû, Ištar of Nineveh, (and) Ištar of Arbela.
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/Q003299/
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Transliteration
É.GAL maš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI DUMU m⸢d⸣30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ DUMU mMAN-GIN MAN KUR AŠ GÌR.NÍTA TIN.TIR.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI / NA₄.na-aḫ-bi-ṣi šá Ì.MEŠ ru-bu-ti ma-lu-[u šá] it-ti NÍG.ŠU.MEŠ šad-lu-ti ⸢NÍG.GA⸣ la ni-bi ni-ṣir-ti É.GAL mab-di-mi-il-ku-ti LUGAL KUR.ṣi-du-un-ni / šá qé-reb tam-tim šá ina tu-kul-ti daš-šur d30 dUTU dEN dMUATI d15 ⸢šá⸣ NINA.⸢KI⸣ d15 šá URU.LÍMMU-DINGIR ik-šu-du ra-bi-tú qa-ti
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003299.
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/Q003299/..
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/Q003299/.
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