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Esarhaddon 056 (Q003285)

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

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DesignationEsarhaddon 056
IDQ003285
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 [0:4] 1'1'–4'4'[...] ... [...] merciful [god, ... who resides] in Eḫulḫul, [...]:
Obverse [4:8] 5'5'–8'8'[E]sarhaddon, g[reat] king, [...], pious prince, the one who [...], the one who loves truth, ... [...] ... [...]

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 [...]
2'(x) x-⸢u₂ E⸣ x x [...]
3'[DINGIR] ⸢re⸣-me₂-nu-u₂ x [...]
4'[a]-⸢šib⸣ e₂-ḫul₂-ḫul₂ [...]
5'{[m]}⸢AN⸣.ŠAR₂-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA LUGAL ⸢GAL⸣ [...]
6'x NUN na-aʾ-du muš-[...]
7'ra-aʾ-im kit-⸢te⸣ x [...]
8'x (x) x x x [...]

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