Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 096
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria, had a palace built anew in the city Tarbiṣu from its foundations to its parapets.
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/Q003325/
Why it matters
Documents Esarhaddon's construction of a palace at Tarbiṣu, a royal suburb north of Nineveh, attesting the city's role as an administrative satellite within the Assyrian imperial heartland.
Transliteration
maš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / É.GAL ša qé-reb URU.tar-bi-ṣi / ul-tu UŠ₈-šú a-di gaba-dib-bi-šú / eš-šiš ú-še-piš
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003325.
Attribution
Image: BM 090247 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Tarbisu (mod. Tell Sherif Khan) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P427875). 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/Q003325/.
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