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RINAP 4 Esarhaddon x1016, ex. 001 (P400267)
Official or display, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RINAP 4 Esarhaddon x1016, ex. 001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400267 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Official or display |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-H2, 2026-10-18), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1' | _za3_ [...] | to the right ...(low confidence: few signs survive) |
| 2' | _ub#? sze? tu2#?_ [...] x x [... _{udu}sila4-mesz_] | ... barley rations ... ... male lambs |
| 3' | szuk#-lu-lu-te sza2 la i-szu-u ti-rik# [s,u-ul-me ...] | The šululû-priests, who do not have a protective deity, the tirik of protection, ... |
| 4' | ul# u2-pat-ti sza2 _dumu-mesz {lu2}hal-mesz#_ [pal-ka-a ha-si-sun2 t,up-pi asz2-t,ur e-ri-im] | I did not open (them). Of the sons of the haruspex, you are present. I have written a tablet, checked, and collated. |
| 5' | ab#-ri-<im> a-din-szu2-nu-ti ul as,-[lul kal mu-szi ...] | I did not slander them, all of the night ... |
| 6' | [u2]-qa#-a'-a nam-ru _en en-en_ [{d}utu ...] | I made bright. Lord, lord, Šamaš |
| 7' | [a-na] szu#-te-szur de-e-ni ni-isz# [qa-ti na-szi-ma ...] | He bears the responsibility for the clearing of lawsuits and ... |
| 8' | [u2-s,al]-li# {d}utu u {d}iszkur en-qu-u-te [_dumu-mesz {lu2}hal_ u2-szak-me-sa sza2-pal-szu2-un] | The gods Šamaš and Adad, the enqūtu-priests, (and) the sons of the diviner, I made bow down at their feet. |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a#-di qa-tu u2-kin-nu ib-ru-u2 x [...] | Until they have established (them) in the hand, ... ... |
| 2 | szu-te-mu-qu szap-ta-a-a pal-ha-ku#? [...] | I am frightened, I am afraid |
| 3 | im#-tal-li-ku {d}i2-gi3-gi3 ip-ru-su# [...] | The Igigi ran away, and ...(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 4 | [_uzu]-mesz#_ ti-kil-ti szal-mu-u-te [...] | The flesh, the pure tikiltu-offering, ... |
| 5 | [x x] x-ni {d}utu u {d}iszkur szu-[...] | Šamaš and Adad(lower confidence: line is broken) |
| 6 | [...] x-ka i-be-el _kur_ x [...] | ... he will rule over the land ... |
| 7 | [...] x x x [...] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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