Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 098
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 4(1) The god Aššur, father of the gods, who loves my priestly service; the god Anu, the powerful, the foremost, the one who called my name; the god Enlil, lofty lord, the one confirmed my reign; the god Ea, wise one, knowing one, who decrees my destiny; (5) the god Sîn, shining Nannar, the one who makes signs favorable for me; the god Šamaš, judge of heaven and netherworld, the one who provides decisions for me; the god Adad, terrifying lord, the one who makes my troops prosper; the god Marduk, hero of the Igīgū and Anunnakū gods, the one who makes my kingship great; the goddess Ištar, lady of…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
AN.ŠÁR AD DINGIR.MEŠ ra-aʾ-im SANGA-ti-ia / da-nu geš-ru reš-tu-u na-bu-u šu-mì-ia / dBAD EN šá-qu-u mu-ki-in BALA.MEŠ-ia / dDIŠ er-šú mu-du-u mu-šim NAM.MEŠ-ia / d30 dŠEŠ.KI nam-ru mu-dam-mì-iq GISKIM.MEŠ-ia / dUTU DI.KU₅ AN-e u KI-tim pa-ri-su EŠ.BAR-ia / dIŠKUR EN ra-áš-bu mu-⸢na⸣-ḫi-iš ERIM.ḪI.A.MEŠ-ia / dMES e-tel dí-gì-gì u dGÉŠ.U-ki mu-⸢šar⸣-bu-u LUGAL-ti-ia / dINANNA be-let MURUB₄ u MÈ…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003327.
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/Q003327/..
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/Q003327/.
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