Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 137
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 4(1) For the goddess Ištar of Uruk, lady of the lands: Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria, (5) governor of Babylon, (and) king of the four quarters, son of Sennacherib, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world (and) (10) king of Ass[yria], renovated Eanna (“House of Heaven”), the temple of highest rank, for the sake of his life, and made (it) shine like daylight.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
ana dINANNA UNUG.⸢KI⸣ / GAŠAN KUR.KUR.⸢RA⸣ / mAN.ŠÁR-PAP-AŠ / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI / GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.⸢DIŠ⸣.KI / MAN kib-rat LÍMMU-ti / A m30-⸢ŠEŠ?⸣.MEŠ-SU1 / MAN ŠÚ MAN ⸢KUR⸣ aš-šur.KI / A mMAN-⸢GIN⸣ MAN ŠÚ / MAN ⸢KUR⸣ aš-[šur].⸢KI⸣ / ana TI-šú é-an-na / ⸢É⸣ d⸢a-nu-u-ti⸣ / ud-diš-ma GIM u₄-me ZÁLAG-ir
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003366.
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/Q003366/..
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/Q003366/.
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