Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 087
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [...] ... [... the one] who raised the downfallen, avenger of ... [...] capable [...], the one who provides pleasant protection over the people am I; son of Sennach[erib, great king], mighty [king], king of the world, king of Assyria; descendant of Sargon (II), king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of S[umer and Akkad]; descendant of Bēl-bāni, son of Adasi, king of Assyria, [ancient] stock — (6) [...] the former Tebiltu canal that Ashurnasirpal (II), a ruler who came be[fore me], had dug from the (Upper) Zab over the plain of Kalḫu [...] — that canal, not turning ... [...] ...…
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/Q003316/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[...] x BU [(x)] ŠU ina? LID? [(x)] ḪI? aš?-šur? BE [...] / [... mu]-šat-bu-u? ma?-aq?-ti mu-⸢ter⸣ gi-⸢mil⸣ x x ⸢LI?⸣ MU UR? ŠU? [...] / [...] le-ʾu šá-kin ṣu-lu-li DÙG.GA UGU UN.MEŠ ana-ku-ma A md30-PAP.[MEŠ-SU LUGAL GAL-u] / [LUGAL] dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur A mLUGAL-GIN LUGAL KUR aš-šur GÌR.NÍTA KÁ?.DINGIR?.KI MAN KUR ⸢EME⸣.[GI₇] / [u ak-ka-de]-e li-ip-li-pi mEN-ba-ni A ma-da-si MAN KUR…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003316.
Attribution
Image: Created by Erle Leichty, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003316/..
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/Q003316/.
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