Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 2005
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 4(1) To the goddess Bēlet-Ninūa, who resides in Emašm[aš], great queen, her lady: (2b) Naqīʾa, wife of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, daughter-in-law of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, commissioned a pectoral of red gold, which was inlaid with precious stone(s) weighing 3 3/4 minas. (6) She presented and dedicated (this object) for the preservation of the life of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, her son, and for her own life, for the stability of her reign, (and for) the well-being of her offspring.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
a-na dbe-let-URU.NINA.KI a-ši-bat é-maš-⸢maš⸣ / GAŠAN GAL-tú GAŠAN-šá fna-qí-ʾa-a MUNUS.É.GAL1 / ša md30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN KUR AŠ kal-lat mMAN-GI.NA / LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR AN.ŠÁR tu-še-piš-ma GABA KÙ.GI ḪUŠ.A / ša tam-lit NA₄ ni-siq-ti ša 3 MA.NA 3.I.MEŠ KI.LÁ / a-na TI ZI.MEŠ ša mAN.ŠÁR-PAP-AŠ LUGAL KUR AN.ŠÁR DUMU-šá / ù šá-a-šá ana TI.LA-šá GIN BALA.MEŠ-šá SILIM NUMUN-šá / GÁ-ma BA-ìš
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003407.
Attribution
Image: Created by Erle Leichty, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011, 2017. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, and updated by him, 2017, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003407/..
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/Q003407/.
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