Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 112
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1') ... E[sarhaddon], great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of [Assyria], king of the kings of [(Lower) Egypt], Upper Egypt, and [Kush], (i 5´) king of the [four] quarters, the king who [has] no rival in all of [the lands]; son of Sennach[erib, king of Assyria, descendant of Sargon (II), grea]t [king], mighty king, king of the world, king of [Assyria, governor of Babylon], king of the land of Sumer [and Akkad, ...] Col. ii (missing) (iii 1') [...] ... [...] ... [...] placed before them [...] the temples, all of them, (iii 5´) [...] ... that were ruined [...] brought [...] ...…
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/Q003341/
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Transliteration
x x ⸢AN.ŠÁR⸣-[ŠEŠ-SUM.NA] / LUGAL GAL-ú LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL [KUR aš-šur] / LUGAL LUGAL.MEŠ KUR.[mu-uṣ-ri] / KUR.pa-ta-ri-is u [KUR.ku-u-si] / LUGAL kib-ra-a-ti [LÍMMU-ti] / LUGAL šá ina kul-lat [KUR.KUR] / ma-ḫi-ri la i-[šu-ú] / ⸢bu-kúr⸣ d30-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-[SU LUGAL KUR aš-šur ŠÀ.BAL.BAL LUGAL-GIN] / [LUGAL GAL]-ú LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL [KUR aš-šur] / [GÌR.NÍTA TIN.TIR].⸢KI LUGAL⸣ KUR…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003341.
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/Q003341/..
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/Q003341/.
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