Esarhaddon 036 (Q003265)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 036 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003265 |
| 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 [0:3] 1'1'–3'3' | (No translation possible) |
| Obverse [3:8] 4'4'–8'8' | [...] ... I did not take [...] my [...] I set out and [... in the neighborhood] of the city of the Brook of Egypt, a [place that has no river(s) ...] water drawn by bucket [... where] thirst (and) hunger [...]. |
| Obverse [8:15] 9'9'–15'15' | [In accordance with the god Aššur, m]y [lord] (and) by my own intelligence, [it occurred] to me [...] in water skins (and) bags [...] wh[ere] snakes (and) scorpions [...] in (its) midst, he heard my prayer [... The god Adad] produced heat lightning high [over the] entire [sky]. In the city [... inter]twined [trees] that I saw, the l[ight ...] ... [...] |
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' | [...] (x) [...] | |
| 2' | [...] x-ti-šu₂ x [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢LUL⸣ KU BA ⸢ŠA₂⸣ x [...] | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢GAL⸣ ul al-⸢qa-a⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | [...] x-ia aṣ-bat-⸢ma⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [... a-na i-te]-⸢e⸣ URU na-ḫal mu-ṣur ⸢a⸣-[šar ID₂ la i-šu-u ...] | |
| 7' | [...] ⸢A⸣.MEŠ di-lu-⸢ti⸣ [...] | |
| 8' | [... a-šar] ⸢ṣu⸣-um-me lap-lap-tu x [...] | |
| 9' | [(...) ki-i qi₂-bit AN.ŠAR₂ EN]-⸢ia⸣ ina ṭe₃-me ra-ma-ni-ia ina GEŠTU.⸢II⸣-[ia ib-ši-ma ...] | |
| 10' | [...] ina {⸢kuš}na⸣-a-di {kuš}ḫi-in-ti x [...] | |
| 11' | [...] x ⸢a⸣-[šar] MUŠ.MEŠ GIR₂.TAB.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] | |
| 12' | [... a]-⸢na⸣ qer-⸢biš⸣ iš-ma-a su-up-pi-⸢ia⸣ [...] | |
| 13' | [... {d}IŠKUR ina AN]-⸢e⸣ DAGAL.MEŠ ša₂-qiš iṣ-ṣa-nab-bur ina {⸢uru⸣}[...] | |
| 14' | [... iṣ-ṣi ḫi-it]-⸢lu⸣-pu-ti ša₂ e-mu-ru ⸢pa⸣-[an {d}UTU-ši ...] | |
| 15' | [...] [...] |
Sources & licences
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