Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 1009
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 4(1) [... S]ennach[erib ... Tiglath]-pileser [...] abundance [...] had built [...].
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[... md]⸢EN⸣.ZU-ŠEŠ?.⸢MEŠ?⸣-[SU ...] / [... mtukul]-⸢ti⸣-A-é-šár-ra [...] / [...] ⸢ḫe?⸣-gal-la [...] / [...] e-pu-šu [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003381.
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/Q003381/..
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/Q003381/.
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