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Esarhaddon 1012 (Q003384)

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

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DesignationEsarhaddon 1012
IDQ003384
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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55[...] king of the land Urarṭu [...] ... [...] not carry, the plunder of [...] whom (my) father, who engendered me, ... [...] ... [... the god] Enlil concerning [...]
Reverse [0:8] r 1'1'–[...] the land Ba[...] ... [...] ... [...] my head [...] over it/him ... [...] they committed an offense against him (and) ... [... -š]uma-iškun, son of Nin[...] ... I placed on his throne. [...]

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)
o
1[...] ⸢MAN {kur}ur⸣-ar-ṭa-⸢ma⸣ [x (x)] ⸢še⸣-tu-⸢u₂⸣-[...]
2[...] x la na-še₂-e ⸢ḫu⸣-bu-ut ša [...]
3[...] ⸢ša₂⸣ AD ba-ni-ia iš-ta-[...]
4[...]-⸢al⸣-lu-u₂ [...]
5[... {d]}⸢EN⸣.LIL₂ aš₂-šu x [...]
r
1'[...] {⸢kur}ba⸣-x [...]
2'[...] la ni-i-x [...]
3'[...]-⸢su⸣ šik-nat la-[...]
4'[...] SAG-ia UGU-šu₂ ⸢u₂⸣-[...]
5'[...] ⸢iḫ⸣-ṭu-u₂ UGU-šu₂ u₂-x [...]
6'[...]-⸢MU⸣-GAR-un DUMU {m}{d}⸢nin⸣-[...]
b.e.
1[...]-⸢ti⸣ ina {giš}GU.ZA-šu₂ u₂-še-⸢šib⸣ [...]

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