Esarhaddon 100 (Q003329)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 100 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003329 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap4 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] 1'1'–3'3' | [... before] he (comes) it is a city, [when he leaves it is a tell. The assault] of his fierce battle [is a blazing flame], a [rest]less fire. |
| Obverse [3:8] 4'4'–8'8' | [Son of] Sennacherib, great king, mighty king, [king of the world, king of Assyria, descendant of] Sargon (II), great king, mighty king, [king of the world, king of Assyria, gover]nor of Babylon, king of Sumer and [Akkad; royal descendant of] the eternal line of Bēl-[bāni, son of Adasi, founder of the kingship] of Assyria, [whose] place [of ultimate origin is Baltil (Aššur)] — |
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' | [... pa-nu]-⸢uš-šu₂⸣ URU-um-[ma ar-ke-e-šu₂] | |
| 2' | [ti-lu qit]-⸢ru-ub ta⸣-ḫa-zi-šu ⸢dan⸣-[nu nab-lu] | |
| 3' | [muš-taḫ-mi₃-ṭu {d]}GIŠ.BAR la [a-ni-ḫu] | |
| 4' | [DUMU] {⸢m⸣}{d}30PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN GAL ⸢MAN dan⸣-[nu MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur{ki]} | |
| 5' | [DUMU] {⸢m⸣}LUGAL-GI.NA MAN GAL MAN ⸢dan⸣-[nu MAN ŠU₂ MAN KUR aš-šur{ki]} | |
| 6' | [GIR₃].⸢NITA₂⸣ KA₂.DINGIR.RA{<ki>} MAN KUR šu-me-⸢ri u₃⸣ [URI{ki]} | |
| 7' | [NUMUN LUGAL-u-ti] ⸢da⸣-ru-u₂ ša {m}EN-[ba-ni DUMU {m}a-da-si] | |
| 8' | [mu-kin LUGAL-u-ti KUR] ⸢aš⸣-šur{ki} ša₂ ⸢du⸣-[ru-ug-šu₂ bal-til{ki]} |
Sources & licences
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