Esarhaddon 064 (Q003293)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 064 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003293 |
| 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 |
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| Obverse [0:10] 11–1010 | I, Esarhaddon, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, [go]vernor [of] Bab[yl]on, king of Sumer and Akkad; the one who (re)constructed the temple of [the god Aššur], (re)built Esagil and Babylon, renewed the statues of the great gods; son of Senna[ch]erib, king of the world (and) king of Assyria; descendant of Sargon (II), king of Assyria — (5) [during] my [king]ship, when the god Aššur and the goddess Mullissu stretched out [their] protection [over me] and (when) the great gods called my name for lordship over the [land] and people, and (when) I made Ashurbanipal, the senior son of the king, enter the House of Succession, (it was) [at] that time, (that) I raised that terrace (and) built a palace for my royal residence on [it]. |
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 | a-na-ku {⸢m⸣}aš-šur-⸢PAP⸣-AŠ MAN dan-nu MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur | |
| 2 | ⸢GIR₃.NITA₂⸣ KA₂.[DINGIR].RA{ki} MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI{⸢ki⸣} ba-⸢nu-u⸣ E₂ {[d}aš-šur] | |
| 3 | ⸢e⸣-piš ⸢e₂⸣-sag-⸢gil₂⸣ u KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} mu-diš ṣa-lam DINGIR.MEŠ | |
| 4 | ⸢GAL.MEŠ⸣ DUMU {m}30⸢PAP⸣.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur{ki} A {m}MAN-GIN MAN KUR aš-šur-ma | |
| 5 | [ina MAN]-ti-ia₂ ša₂ AN.⸢ŠAR₂⸣ u {d}NIN.LIL₂ ⸢GIŠ.MI-šu⸣-[nu UGU-ia] | |
| 6 | it-ru-ṣu u DINGIR.MEŠ ⸢GAL.MEŠ⸣ a-na be-lut ⸢KUR⸣ | |
| 7 | ⸢u₃⸣ UN.MEŠ ib-bu-u zik-ri u {m}aš-šur-⸢DU₃-A⸣ | |
| 8 | DUMU MAN GAL-u ina E₂ ⸢UŠ-ti u₂⸣-še-ri-bu-ma [ina] ⸢u₄⸣-me-šu₂-ma tam-la-⸢a⸣ | |
| 9 | šu-a-tu₂ u₂-mal-⸢li E₂⸣.GAL a-na ⸢mu⸣-šab | |
| 10 | MAN-ti-ia ab-ta-ni ṣe-ru-⸢uš⸣-[šu] |
Sources & licences
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