Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 019
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 4(1') [...] ... [...] (2') [... the gods Nin]urta, Adad, [... the gods of] Assyria, al[l of them, into it. I made sumptuous pure offerings before them and pre]sented (them) with my gifts. [... I seated all of the officials and people of my country] in it [at festive tables, ceremonial meals, and banqu]ets [...] ... [... I had (my servants) drench their (the guests’) heads with fine oil (and) per]fumed oil. [...] ... [...]
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[...] SAG [...] / [... d]⸢MAŠ?⸣ dIŠKUR ⸢d⸣[...] / [... DINGIR].⸢MEŠ⸣ KUR aš-šur.KI ⸢ka⸣-[li-šú-nu ...] / [... ú-šam]-ḫi-ra kàd-ra-⸢a⸣-[a ...] / [... qé-re]-⸢e⸣-ti <ina> qé-reb-šá ⸢ú⸣-[...] / [...]-⸢nu⸣-ti-ma ⸢ú⸣-[...]1 / [... ì]-⸢gu⸣-la-⸢a⸣ [...] / [...] x [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003248.
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/Q003248/..
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/Q003248/.
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