Esarhaddon 076 (Q003305)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Qalat Sherqat (Assur) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 076 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003305 |
| 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/rinap4 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | The god Aššur [...] great [god]s in its midst ... [...] lasting [...] ..., he was giving a command to Esarhaddon, ..., his chosen one, and he was ordering him. (5) He called his name for kingship to be the one who renovates Ešarra (and) makes (its) cult complete, (saying): “Build lof[ty] Ešarra, the dais of my desire (and) make its design artful like the stars (lit. “writing”) of the firmament.” |
| Obverse [8:12] o 99–o 1212 | Esarhaddon, trusted ruler, the one who is (re)building the temple of (the god) Aššur, mustered the workmen of the god Aššur from all of the settlements (and) mustered the rulers of all (four) quarters. They carried baskets to the capital city. |
| Obverse [12:17] o 1313–o 1717 | In Baltil (Aššur), the lofty cult center, city of the king of the gods, the god Aššur, to perform the work on Ešarra [...] he (Esarhaddon) poured .... (15) Into ..., they mixed milk, gh[ee], fine oil, ḫašūru-resin, (and) mortar, (and) they [ma]de bricks. Big, small, the daughter of the king, |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | {d}aš-šur [...] ⸢DINGIR⸣.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ | |
| 2 | ina qer-bi-šu₂ x [...] x da-ra-te | |
| 3 | a-na {m}aš-šur-PAP-MU x x [x x] x x ni-iš IGI.II.MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 4 | ur-tu i-nam-din-šu-u-ma u₂-ma-ʾa-<ar>-šu ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 5 | a-na mu-di-iš e₂-šar₂-ra mu-šak-lil pel-lu-de-e | |
| 6 | MU-šu₂ it-ta-bi a-⸢na⸣ LUGAL-u-te | |
| 7 | e-pu-uš e₂-šar₂-ra ṣi-i-⸢ru⸣ BARA₂ la-li-ia | |
| 8 | ki-ma ši-ṭir bu-ru-um-me nu-uk-ki-la GIŠ.ḪUR.MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 9 | {m}aš-šur-PAP-MU iš-šak-ku pit-qu-du ba-nu-u₂ E₂ aš-šur | |
| 10 | um-ma-na-at {d}aš-šur id-de-ki a-na kul-lat <da>-ad₂-me | |
| 11 | mal-ki id-de-ki ša kal kib-ra-te | |
| 12 | ku-dur₂-ru it-ta-šu-u-ni a-na URU kiš-šu-te | |
| 13 | ina bal-til{ki} ma-ḫa-zu ṣi-i-ru URU LUGAL DINGIR.MEŠ {d}aš-šur | |
| 14 | a-na e-peš šip-ri ša₂ e₂-šar₂-ra [x x] x KU BAL-qi₂ | |
| 15 | ina BAL x ši-iz-bu ḫi-[me-tu] I₃.GIŠ ḪA.ŠUR | |
| 16 | ka-lak-ku ib-lu-lu₄ [il-bi]-nu SIG₄ | |
| 17 | kab-tu-te ṣe-eḫ-ru-te DUMU.MUNUS LUGAL | |
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