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Esarhaddon 082
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 — (with regard to) the armory, which is in Kalḫu, that Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), a ruler who came before me, had built, I incorporated unused land as an addition (to it), raised the terrace with massive stones from the mountains, (and) built palatial halls for my lordly pleasure on it — son of Sennacher[ib], king of the world (and) king of Assyria, descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world (and) king of 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/Q003311/
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Transliteration
KUR maš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN GAL MAN dan-⸢nu⸣ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.KI MAN KUR EME.GI₇ / u URI.KI KUR ma-šar-te šá qé-reb URU.kàl-ḫa šá mdsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KUR aš-šur1 / A maš-šur-PAP-<<UŠ>>-A NUN a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-šú qaq-qa-⸢ru ki⸣-šub-ba-a / ki-ma a-tar-tim-ma lu aṣ-ba-ta ina eš-qi NA₄ KUR-e ⸢tam⸣-la-⸢a⸣ uš-mal-li / É.GAL.MEŠ a-na mul-ta-u-⸢te⸣ be-lu-ti-⸢ia⸣ ab-ta-ni ṣe-ru-uš-šú / A md30-PAP.MEŠ-⸢SU⸣ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ A m⸢MAN⸣-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur-ma2
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003311.
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/Q003311/..
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/Q003311/.
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