Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 1005
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 4(1') [...] they ... its [...] and [...] they were soothed [...] ... [...] the land ... (5′) [...] ... king of Assyria, governor of Babylo[n, ...] ... (my) father, who engendered me, [...] his lordship ... [...] made splendid [the cou]rtyard of Emašmaš [...] ... the house of his father ... [...] my lords [...] pure [san]ctuaries [...]
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Why it matters
Attests Esarhaddon's claim to dual sovereignty as king of Assyria and governor of Babylon, while recording his restoration of Emašmaš — the temple of Ištar at Nineveh — as an act of filial and divine legitimation.
Transliteration
[...]-⸢šú it-ru-pu-ma⸣ [...] / [...] ⸢ú-šap-ši-ḫu⸣ [...] / [...] ⸢SAR?⸣ [...] / [...] ⸢KUR iš-tak-ka⸣-[...] / [...] x ⸢LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR⸣.[RA.KI ...] / [...].⸢MEŠ⸣-SU a-⸢bu⸣ ba-⸢nu-u⸣-a [...] / [...] x be-⸢lut-su ú?⸣-[...] / [... ki]-sal é-maš-maš ⸢ú-šar-ri⸣-[iḫ ...] / [...]-⸢x⸣-na É AD-šú x ⸢A⸣ x [...] / [...] EN.MEŠ-⸢ia?⸣ [...] / [... pa]-⸢pa-aḫ el-lu-ú-tú⸣ [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003377.
Attribution
Image: OIM A16936 (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P450572). source
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/Q003377/.
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