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Esarhaddon 016 (Q003245)

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

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DesignationEsarhaddon 016
IDQ003245
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 [0:6] 11–66[...] Esarhaddon [... cho]sen by the god Aššur, [my] lo[rd, ...] a good šēdu, which is in [...] Egypt and Melu[ḫḫa ...] palace of Se[nnacherib, ... Sa]rgon (II), king of the [four] qua[rters, ...]

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[... {m}{d]}⸢aš-šur-PAP-AŠ⸣ [...]
2[... ni]-⸢bit⸣ {d}a-šur ⸢EN⸣-[ia ...]
3[... {d]}⸢ALAD⸣ SIG₅ ⸢ša ina lib₃-bi⸣ [...]
4[...] {⸢kur⸣}mu-uṣ-ri u {kur}mi-⸢luḫ⸣-[ḫa ...]
5[...] x E₂.GAL ša {m}{d}30[PAP.MEŠ-SU ...]
6[... {m]}⸢MAN-GIN LUGAL kib⸣-[rat LIMMU₂-ti ...]

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