Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 1002
Translation · reference
High confidence(i' 1) to be as secure as [a great moun]tain [for] far-off [days. ...] cast [bro]nze [...] he oversaw its [sm]elting and (i′ 5) examined [... He built from its foundations t]o its parapets, [... all] of its copings [...] ... [...] Cutha, (ii' 1) The gods Ea and Asalluḫi, by their exalted wisdom, opened their mouth(s) with “the washing of the mouth” (and) “the opening of the mouth” (rites) and had (them) dwell on (ii′ 5) their pure pedestal(s) in their lofty cellas for all ti[me]. The one who expanded the cult cent[ers], enlarged the temples of the [great] gods, which from ancient times [...] ... [...] (iii' 1) Through their go[od] deeds, [may] the god Marduk, [the great god, my lord, ...] the foundation of [their royal] thr[one ...] ... [...]
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/Q003374/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[ú-ḫum]-⸢meš⸣ šur-šu-du / [ana u₄-me] ṣa-a-ti / [...] ⸢ZABAR⸣ šip-ki / [... bu]-šul-šú i-ḫi-iṭ-ma / [...] ú-ṣab-bi / [ul-tu UŠ₈-šú a]-⸢di⸣ gaba-dib-bi-šú / [i-pu-uš gi]-⸢mir⸣ pa-as-qí-šú / [...]-⸢ka⸣ šá maḫ-ra / [...] x ⸢GÚ.DU₈.A.KI⸣ / dé-a u dasal-lú-ḫi ina né-me-qí-šú-nu ṣi-ru-ti / KA.LUḪ.Ù.DA KA.DU₈.Ù.DA / KA-šú-nu ip-tu-ma / ina at-ma-ni-šú-nu ṣi-ru-ti ú-šar-ma-[a] / ki-gal-la-šú-nu el-lu šá…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003374.
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/Q003374/..
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/Q003374/.
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