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Esarhaddon 015 (Q003244)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationEsarhaddon 015
IDQ003244
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/rinap4 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:10] 1'1'–10'10'[...] ... [...] situated [... a]ll of my army ... [...] ... army of the enemy, I called and ... [...] (5′) which I constantly did ... [... Taharqa, king of] Kush, together with [his] entire army [... I counted] his [wives], his concubines, his sons, [... everything] else, which was without number, [as] boo[ty ...] I assigned [...] to my servants. A march of [...] my ... [...] Assyria [...]

Transliteration (ATF)

From 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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
1'[...]-⸢ʾa-a⸣ [...]
2'[...] šit-ku-nu [...]
3'[... na]-gab ERIM-a ⸢ma⸣-[...]
4'[...]-lu ERIM KUR₂ al-si-ma {munus}x [...]
5'[...] e-te-ne₂-ep-pu-šu si-[...]
6'[... {m}tar-qu-u LUGAL] {⸢kur⸣}ku-u-si a-di gi-mir ⸢ERIM⸣-[šu₂ ...]
7'[... MUNUS.E₂.GAL].⸢MEŠ-šu₂ MUNUS.E₂.GAL].⸢MEŠ-šu₂ {munus⸣}ERIM.E₂.GAL.MEŠ-šu₂ {munus⸣}ERIM.E₂.GAL.MEŠ-šu₂ DUMU.MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ [...]
8'[... mim-ma] ⸢šum⸣-šu₂ ša₂ ⸢ni⸣-ba la i-šu₂-u₂ šal-[la-tiš am-nu ...]
9'[...] ⸢ARAD⸣.MEŠ-ia ap-qid-ma ma-lak x [...]
10'[...] x x x-⸢ia KUR aš-šur{ki⸣} [...]

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