Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 130
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 4(1) [For the god Enlil], king of the gods, valiant, who drives out the enemies in battle, [...] the sublime, who walks at the side of the king — his favorite — the one who conquers the enem[ies ..., ... Elugalg]usisa — which is in Nippur (Duranki) — great lord, [his lord]: (4) [Esarhadd]on, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), [governor of] Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, selected by the steadfast heart of the god En[lil]; (6) [who from] his childhood [trus]ted in the gods Aššur, Enlil, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Marduk,…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[ana dEN.LÍL] LUGAL DINGIR.MEŠ qar-du šá? sa?-kip? nak?-ri? tam-ḫa-ra šá it?-tak?-[...] / [...] ṣi-i-ru a-lik i-di LUGAL mi-ig-ri-šú ka-šid ⸢a-a⸣-[bi ...] / [... é?-lugal?]-⸢gu₄⸣-si-sá šá qé-reb DUR.AN.KI EN GAL-i [EN-šú] / [mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM].⸢NA⸣ LUGAL GAL-ú LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI LUGAL kib-rat er-bet-[ti] / [GÌR.NÍTA] TIN.TIR.KI LUGAL KUR šu-me-ri u URI.KI i-tu-ut kun lìb-bi…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003359.
Attribution
Image: Created by Erle Leichty, Grant Frame, 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/Q003359/..
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/Q003359/.
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