Esarhaddon 1010 (Q003382)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Uruk · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 1010 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003382 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Uruk |
| Coordinates | 31.3245, 45.6388 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap4 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] 1'1'–1'1' | [... the] scattered [people] of Uruk, who caused to re[turn ...]. |
| Obverse [1:7] 2'2'–7'7' | At that time, the scattered herds of the goddesses Ištar and [Nanāya (...)], those scared away from their watering place and [having no] caretaker [(...)] I gathered, and 60,000 sheep and goats together with [...], 6,000 cows together with [their] herdsm[en (...)], a present of my grandfather Sargo[n (II) ...] which he/they had scattered with the herds, I brought back to [their] pla[ces (...)]. |
| Obverse [7:16] 8'8'–16'16' | The sons of Samiku, the sons of [..., the sons of] Bēl-rammēni, the sons of [..., the sons of] ..., and me, [Esarhaddon, (...)] ... and [I inscribed (their freedom) on] a tablet. [...] in the presence of the goddess Iš[tar ...] and the scattered herds to [...] in all lands [...] (15′) ... [...] I established [their] pri[vileged status (...)]. |
| Obverse [16:18] 17'17'–18'18' | On account of this, [may] the goddess [Ištar, (...) look upon] my [good] deeds [with pleasure and ...] |
| Left [0:1] l.e. 1l.e. 1–l.e. 1l.e. 1 | [...] like my very name, the king who builds Eanna, the one who was chosen [by the god/goddess ...] |
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' | [(x)] x [... UN].⸢MEŠ⸣ UNUG{ki} BIR.MEŠ ⸢mu-ter⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | ina u₄-⸢me⸣-šu-⸢ma bu⸣-ul BIR.MEŠ ša₂ {d}15 u {d}[na-na-a (...)] | |
| 3' | ša₂ ina maš-qat₆-ši-na gul-lu-ta-ma pa-qi₂-du [la i-šu-u (...)] | |
| 4' | u₂-pah-hi-ir-ma 60-šu LIM ⸢US₅⸣.UDU.HI.A a-ki-[i ...] | |
| 5' | 6 LIM AB₂.⸢GU₄⸣.HI.A a-ki-i {lu₂}na-⸢qi⸣-da-[ti-ši-na (...)] | |
| 6' | ši-⸢rik-ti⸣ a-bi <a>-bi-ia LUGAL-⸢GIN⸣ [...] | |
| 7' | ša₂ it-ti bu-ul is-pu-hu u₂-ter aš₂-[ru-uš-šu-un (...)] | |
| 8' | DUMU.⸢MEŠ {m⸣}sa-mi-ku DUMU.⸢MEŠ⸣ {m}aʾ-x [...] | |
| 9' | [DUMU.MEŠ {m]}{⸢d}EN⸣-ram-me-ni DUMU.MEŠ {⸢m⸣}[...] | |
| 10' | [DUMU.MEŠ {m]}x KUR-su-nu u ia-a-ti [...] | |
| 11' | [...] ⸢u₂⸣-rad-di-ma ṭup-⸢pi⸣ [(...) aš₂-ṭur (...)] | |
| 12' | [...] x ina ma-har {d}15 [...] | |
| 13' | ⸢u ana bu⸣-ul BIR.MEŠ a-⸢na⸣ [...] | |
| 14' | ina gi-mir KUR.KUR x [...] | |
| 15' | LU ⸢LU₂⸣ U₂ MU a-na x [...] | |
| 16' | ⸢ak⸣-ṣur ki-⸢di⸣-[nu-us-su-un (...)] | |
| 17' | a-⸢na⸣ šat-ti {⸢d⸣}15 ...] | |
| 18' | ⸢ep-še-ti-ia₅⸣ [...] | |
| l.e. | ||
| 1 | [...] ⸢ki-ma⸣ šu-mi₃-ia-a-ma LUGAL e-piš e₂-an-na ni-bi-⸢ti⸣ [...] | |
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