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Esarhaddon 055 (Q003284)

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

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DesignationEsarhaddon 055
IDQ003284
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] 1'1'–6'6'[...] his ... [...] to establish my reign, to keep [...] intact, [...] my good [deeds], the god(dess) [...] wide [...], the statue, socle, and ... [... Es]arhaddon, tr[ue] shepherd [...] the akītu-[hou]se, images [...]

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'[...] x.⸢MEŠ⸣-šu₂ [...]
2'[...] ⸢ku-un⸣-ni BALA-ia ša₂-lam [...]
3'[... ep-še]-ti-ia dam-qa-a-ti {⸢d⸣}[...]
4'[...] ⸢DAGAL⸣ NU KI.GUB u₃ ṣi-x [...]
5'[... {m}{d}aš]-⸢šur-PAP⸣-AŠ SIPA ke-⸢e⸣-[nu ...]
6'[...] ⸢E₂ a-ki⸣-ti ⸢ṣal-me⸣ [...]

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