Esarhaddon 035 (Q003264)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 035 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003264 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [...] whose country is remote, [... I be]sieged and plundered it. |
| Obverse [2:7] o 33–o 77 | [... the] chieftain of the city Partukka, [... Med]es whose country is remote, [...] large [thoroughbreds] (and blocks of) lapis lazuli, hewn from its [mountain, ... they] kissed my feet [... I imposed ...] upon them. |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | [... b]orders Mount Bikni [...] mighty chieftains [...] I counted as [booty. I ...] the[m]. |
| Reverse [0:11] r 1'1'– | [...] ... water channels [...] ... like ... [...] ..., horses, he constantly [...] Kush, black Meluḫḫians, [...] ... with whom he formed a confederation [...] a difficult place [...] ... [...] ... [...] the goddess Erua ... [...] ... |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | [...] ša₂ a-šar-šu₂ ru-u-qu | |
| 2 | [... al]-me-ma aš₂-lu-la šal-lat-su | |
| 3 | [... {lu₂]}⸢EN⸣.URU {lu₂]}⸢EN⸣.URU ša₂ {uru}pa-ra-tuk-ka | |
| 4 | [... {kur}ma-da]-⸢a⸣-a ša₂ a-šar-šu₂-nu SU₃ | |
| 5 | [... {anše}mur-ni-is-qi₂ GAL].MEŠ {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ GAZ [KUR]-šu₂ | |
| 6 | [... iš-ši]-qu GIR₃.II-ia | |
| 7 | [... e-mid]-su-nu-u₂-ti | |
| 8 | [... pa]-⸢a⸣-ṭi {kur}bi-ik-ni | |
| 9 | [... {lu₂]}⸢EN⸣.URU.MEŠ {lu₂]}⸢EN⸣.URU.MEŠ dan-nu-te | |
| 10 | [... šal-la]-tiš am-nu | |
| 11 | [...]-šu₂-nu-[ti] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] x x NI ḫar-ri x [...] | |
| 2' | [...]-lu-tu₂ GIM KIŠ GAB [x] | |
| 3' | [...]-ḫup-pi ANŠE.KUR.MEŠ it-ta-na-[x] | |
| 4' | [...] {kur}ku-u-si {lu₂}me-luḫ-ḫe-e GE₆.⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢ti⸣ ša₂ ik-te-ra it-ti-šu₂ | |
| 6' | [...] x a-šar nam-ra-ṣi | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [...]-le-e | |
| 2 | [...] x-mu | |
| 3 | [...] {d}A.EDIN ṢAR TE | |
| 4 | [...]-⸢tum⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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