Esarhaddon 058 (Q003287)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 058 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003287 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Qalat Sherqat (Assur) |
| Coordinates | 35.4581, 43.2620 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/scores · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse Column i [0:40] i 1i 1– | [Esarhaddon], king of the wor[ld], king of Ass[yria], piou[s] prin[ce], belove[d of] the god Aššu[r] and the goddess Mu[llissu], upon whom (i 10) you placed your protection and whom you safeguarded for kingship, all of [whose] enemies (ii 1) [you killed and] whose [wi]sh [you caused (him) to attain, up]on whose [father’s] throne you placed in greatness, and whom you entrusted with the lordship of the lands; (ii 10) son of Sennacherib, king of the world, [kin]g of Assyria, the one who made the statues of the god Aššur and the great gods; (iii 1) descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, who is assiduous towards the shrines of the god Aššur and the goddess Mullissu — |
| Obverse Column iii [7:22] iii 88– | The former temple of the god Aššur that Shalmaneser (I), son of Adad-nārārī (I), king of Assyria, a ruler who came (iii 15) before me, had built: Five hundred and eighty-six years passed and (then) it became dilapidated. |
| Obverse Column iv [4:23] iv 55– | I did not change the [lo]cation of that temple and I laid its foundations on gold, silver, (iv 10) precious stones, aromatics, (and) ḫašūru-resin, and I secured its brickwork. (v 1) I built (and) completed (it), (and) greatly made (it) an object of wonder for the people. |
| Obverse Column v [6:20] v 77– | I built (it) for my life, the prolongation of my days, the securing of my reign, the well-being of my seed, the safeguarding of the throne [of] my priestly office, the overthrowing of my enemies, the prospering [of the harvest of] Assyria, (and) the well-being 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)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| i | ||
| 1 | {[m}AN.ŠAR₂-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA] | |
| 2 | LUGAL kiš-⸢ša₂⸣-[ti] | |
| 3 | LUGAL KUR aš-⸢šur⸣{ki} | |
| 4 | ru-⸢bu⸣-[u₂] | |
| 5 | na-a-⸢du⸣ | |
| 6 | na-⸢ram⸣ | |
| 7 | {d}a-⸢šur₄⸣ | |
| 8 | ⸢u₃⸣ {d}⸢NIN⸣.[LIL₂] | |
| 9 | ša ṣu-lul-⸢ku⸣-nu | |
| 10 | UGU-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 11 | ⸢taš⸣-ku-nu-ma | |
| 12 | tan-ṣu-ru-šu₂ | |
| 13 | a-na LUGAL-ti | |
| 14 | gi-mi₃-ir | |
| 15 | za-ma-ni-[šu₂] | |
| ii | ||
| 1 | [ta-na-ru-ma] | |
| 2 | [tu-šak-ši-du] | |
| 3 | [ni]-⸢iz⸣-ma-⸢su⸣ | |
| 4 | [i]-⸢na {giš}GU⸣.ZA | |
| 5 | [AD]-šu₂ ra-⸢biš⸣ | |
| 6 | ⸢tu⸣-še-ši-bu-šu₂-ma | |
| 7 | be-lu-ut KUR.KUR | |
| 8 | tu-⸢šad⸣-gi-lu | |
| 9 | pa-nu-uš-šu₂ | |
| 10 | DUMU {m}{d}30PAP.MEŠ-SU | |
| 11 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ kiš-ša₂-ti | |
| 12 | LUGAL KUR {d}aš-šur | |
| 13 | e-piš | |
| 14 | ṣa-lam AN.ŠAR₂ | |
| 15 | u₃ DINGIR.MEŠ | |
| 16 | GAL.MEŠ | |
| iii | ||
| 1 | ⸢DUMU {m⸣}LUGAL-GI.NA | |
| 2 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ kiš-ša₂-ti | |
| 3 | LUGAL KUR aš-šur{ki} | |
| 4 | muš-te-eʾ-u₂ | |
| 5 | aš₂-rat | |
| 6 | {d}a-šur₄ | |
| 7 | u₃ {d}NIN.LIL₂ | |
| 8 | E₂ AN.ŠAR₂ | |
| 9 | maḫ-ru-u₂ | |
| 10 | ša {m}{d}sal₂-ma-nu-MAŠ | |
| 11 | DUMU {m}10ERIM.TAḪ₂ | |
| 12 | LUGAL KUR aš-šur | |
| 13 | ru-bu-u₂ | |
| 14 | a-lik | |
| 15 | pa-ni-ia | |
| 16 | e-pu-šu | |
| 17 | 9 UŠ | |
| iv | ||
| 1 | 46 | |
| 2 | MU.AN.NA.MEŠ | |
| 3 | il-li-ik-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 4 | e-na-aḫ-ma | |
| 5 | E₂ šu-a-tu₂ | |
| 6 | a-[šar] | |
| 7 | maš-kan₂-šu₂ | |
| 8 | ul u₂-ša₂-ni-ma | |
| 9 | ṣe-er KU₃.GI KU₃.BABBAR | |
| 10 | NA₄.MEŠ ni-siq-ti | |
| 11 | ŠIM.ḪI.A | |
| 12 | I₃+GIŠ {giš}ḪA.ŠUR | |
| 13 | uš-še-šu | |
| 14 | ad-di-ma | |
| 16 | u₂-kin | |
| 17 | lib-na-as-su | |
| v | ||
| 1 | ar-ṣip | |
| 2 | u₂-šak-⸢lil⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢a⸣-na tab-rat | |
| 4 | UN.ME | |
| 5 | ⸢ma⸣-aʾ-⸢diš⸣ | |
| 6 | u₂-ša₂-⸢lik⸣ | |
| 7 | a-na TI.LA-ia | |
| 8 | GID₂ UD.MEŠ-ia | |
| 9 | GIN BALA-ia | |
| 10 | ša₂-lam NUMUN-ia | |
| 11 | na-ṣir {giš}GU.ZA | |
| 12 | ša₂-an-gu-ti-ia | |
| 13 | sa-kip | |
| 14 | KUR₂.MEŠ-ia | |
| vi | ||
| 1 | SI.⸢SA₂⸣ [BURU₁₄] | |
| 2 | KUR aš-⸢šur⸣ | |
| 3 | ša₂-lam | |
| 4 | KUR aš-šur | |
| 5 | e-pu-uš | |
Sources & licences
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