Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 004
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 4(i' 1') (No translation warranted) (i' 2') [Moreover, I struck with] the sword [Teušpa, a Cimmeri]an, [a barbarian whose home is remote, together with his entire army, in the territory of the land Ḫub]ušnu. (i' 5') [The one who treads on the necks of the people of Cili]cia, [mountain dwellers who live in inaccessible mountains in the neighborhood] of the land Tabal, [evil Hittites, who from earliest days had not been] submissive to the yoke — [I surrounded, conquered, plundered, demolished, destroy]ed, (and) burned with fire [twenty-one of their fortified cities and small cities in] their…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[... ka-mi]-⸢iš⸣ / [ù mte-uš-pa-a LÚ.gi-mir-ra-a]-a / [ERIM-man-da šá a-šar-šú ru-ú-qu ina KI-tim KUR.ḫu-bu]-uš-na / [a-di gi-mir ERIM.ḪI.A-šú ú-ra-as-si-ib ina] GIŠ.TUKUL / [ka-bi-is ki-šá-di UN.MEŠ KUR.ḫi]-⸢lak⸣-ki1 / [šad-du-u-a a-ši-bu-te ḫur-šá-a-ni pa-áš-qu-u-ti šá ṭe-ḫi] KUR.ta-bal / [LÚ.ḫat-te-e lem-nu-ú-ti ul-tu u₄-me pa-ni la] ⸢kit⸣-nu-šú a-na ni-ri2 / [21 URU.MEŠ-šú-nu dan-nu-ti ù…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003233.
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/Q003233/..
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/Q003233/.
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