Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 1021
Translation — scholar edition
RIAo(1') [(...)] Aššur-[(...)]-etel-ilāni-[(...)] Not photographed
Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online — scholar edition (ORACC / MOCCI).
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Transliteration
[(...)] mdaš-šur-[(...)] / [(...)]-e-tel-DINGIR.MEŠ-[(...)]1
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q003393.
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/Q003393/..
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q003393/.
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