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Esarhaddon 070 (Q003299)

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

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DesignationEsarhaddon 070
IDQ003299
CollectionArkeoloji Müzerleri, Istanbul, Turkey
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotQalat Sherqat (Assur)
Coordinates35.4581, 43.2620

English translation

By ORACC project rinap/rinap4 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

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Obverse [0:3] 11–33The 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, descendant of Sargon (II), king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad — an amphora filled with oil fit for princes, [which] was with the vast possessions (and) goods without number, the treasures of the palace of Abdi-Milkūti, the king of Sidon — which is in the midst of the sea — that my great hand(s) captured with the help of the gods Aššur, Sîn, Šamaš, Bēl, Nabû, Ištar of Nineveh, (and) Ištar of Arbela.

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 MAN dan-nu MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ GIR₃.NITA₂ KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI{ki} DUMU {m}{⸢d⸣}30PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR AŠ DUMU {m}MAN-GIN MAN KUR AŠ GIR₃.NITA₂ TIN.TIR{ki} MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI{ki}
2{na₄}na-aḫ-bi-ṣi ša₂ I₃.MEŠ ru-bu-ti ma-lu-[u ša₂] it-ti NIG₂.ŠU.MEŠ šad-lu-ti ⸢NIG₂.GA⸣ la ni-bi ni-ṣir-ti E₂.GAL {m}ab-di-mi-il-ku-ti LUGAL {kur}ṣi-du-un-ni
3ša₂ qe₂-reb tam-tim ša₂ ina tu-kul-ti {d}aš-šur {d}30 {d}UTU {d}EN {d}MUATI {d}15 ⸢ša₂⸣ NINA{⸢ki⸣} {d}15 ša₂ {uru}LIMMU₂-DINGIR ik-šu-du ra-bi-tu₂ qa-ti

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