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Esarhaddon 062 (Q003291)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationEsarhaddon 062
IDQ003291
CollectionVorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotQalat Sherqat (Assur)
Coordinates35.4581, 43.2620

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/scores · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:9] 11–99The palace of Esarhaddon, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, son of Sennacherib, king of the world (and) king of Assyria — I had the gatehouse, which is in the palace in Baltil (Aššur), built anew for coming and going (and) I firmly founded its foundation with white limestone.

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)
1E₂.GAL {m}aš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN GAL
2MAN dan-nu MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur
3GIR₃.NITA₂ KA₂.DINGIR MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI{ki}
4A {m}{d}30PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ
5E₂ muš-la-lu ša₂ qe₂-reb
6E₂.GAL bal-til{ki} a-na e-re-bi
7u₃ a-ṣe-e eš-šiš u₂-še-piš
8ina pi-i-li BABBAR-⸢e⸣
9u₂-šar-šid tem-me-en-šu₂

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