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Esarhaddon 020 (Q003249)

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

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DesignationEsarhaddon 020
IDQ003249
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] 11–66The palace of Esarhaddon, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the kings of (Lower) Egypt, Upper Egypt, (and) Kush, son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, descendant of Sargon (II), king of 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)
1KUR {m}AŠ-PAP-AŠ MAN dan-nu
2MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ GIR₃.NITA₂ KA₂.DINGIR{ki}
3MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI{ki} LUGAL MAN.MEŠ
4{kur}mu-ṣur {kur}pa-tu-ri-si
5{kur}ku-u-si A {m}{d}30PAP.MEŠ-SU
6MAN KUR AŠ A {m}MAN-GIN MAN KUR AŠ-ma

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