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Esarhaddon 1004 (Q003376)

Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationEsarhaddon 1004
IDQ003376
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreRoyal Inscription
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

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

LineEnglish
Obverse Column i [0:5] i' 1'1'–i' 5'5'[... ki]ng ... [...] I sett[led ...] in a peaceful dwelling [...] ... mountain, my lord ... [...] ... that road, property of/that ... [...] ... of Esagil and Babylon [...].
Obverse Column i [5:10] i' 6'6'–i' 10'10'[...] ... I brought them in [...] ... [...] ... [my] gifts [...] he received [...] ... (and) he [... i]n the land they made [...] disappear [...].
Obverse Column i [10:11] i' 11'11'–i' 11'11'(No translation possible)

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)
i'
1'[...] x x [...]
2'[...] ⸢LUGAL⸣ TA x ⸢E₂⸣ x [...]
3'[...] ⸢šu⸣-bat ne-eḫ-te u₂-še-[šib ...]
4'[...]-i KUR be-li e-⸢ti⸣-[...]
5'[...] x ME KASKAL x-(x)-ti NIG₂.ŠU ša u₂-x-[...]
6'[...] x.MEŠ šu-ut e₂-sag-gil₂ u KA₂.DINGIR.RA{⸢ki⸣} [...]
7'[...] x-⸢nu⸣ KU₃ u₂-še-rib-šu₂-nu-⸢ti⸣ [...]
8'[...] x A TI LU KIŠ ME IB RI x x [...]
9'[...] x-il am-ra kad₃-ra-a-[a ...]
10'[...] ⸢UM⸣ ṢI im-ḫur ⸢u₂⸣-[...]
11'[... i]-⸢na KUR⸣ u₂-ḫal-li-qu ⸢KAL⸣ [...]
12'[...] x ZU ⸢MA⸣ x [...]

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