Esarhaddon 017 (Q003246)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 017 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003246 |
| Collection | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap4 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] 1'1'–4'4' | king of the wor[ld, king of Assyria]; son of Sennacherib, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria — |
| Obverse [4:11] 5'5'–11'11' | (As for) the temple of the goddess Ištar of Nineveh, his lady, the one who (re)constructed the temple of the god Aššur (and) (re)built Esagil and Babylon, for the preservation of his life, the lengthening of his days, the well-being of his offspring, (and) the overthrow of his enemies, he (Esarhaddon) ordered the dilapidated (temple) torn down [...] ... [...] |
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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | ⸢LUGAL kiš⸣-[ša₂-ti LUGAL KUR aš-šur{ki]} | |
| 2' | DUMU {m}{d}30⸢ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba⸣ | |
| 3' | LUGAL GAL-u₂ LUGAL dan-nu | |
| 4' | LUGAL kiš-ša₂-ti LUGAL KUR aš-šur{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 5' | ⸢E₂⸣ {d}INANNA ša NINA{ki} GAŠAN-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 6' | ⸢ba⸣-nu-u E₂ {d}aš-šur DU₃-iš₃ e₂-sag-⸢gil₂⸣ | |
| 7' | u₃ KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} a-na TI ZI.MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 8' | ⸢GID₂⸣.DA UD.MEŠ-šu₂ ša₂-lam NUMUN.MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 9' | sa-kap KUR₂.MEŠ-šu₂ an-ḫu-tu₂ ana | |
| 10' | ma-aq-tu iq-bu | |
| 11' | x-⸢BAR u₂⸣-[...] |
Sources & licences
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