Esarhaddon 1017 (Q003389)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 1017 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003389 |
| 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 [0:7] 1'1'–7'7' | [...] ... river [...] ... [... the goddess] Ištar ... [...] I plundered ... [...] ... its heart, its lungs ... [...] its ... [...] my messenger ... [...] ... year ... [...] |
| Obverse [7:11] 8'8'–11'11' | [...] ... I mustered my camp ... [...] my [...] quickly ... [...] ... they prayed ... [...] ... [...] |
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 ID₂ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢ši⸣-mat du-x [...] | |
| 3' | [... {d]}15 i-ša₂-qu um-[...] | |
| 4' | [...] ⸢aš₂⸣-lu-la ša₂-x [...] | |
| 5' | [...]-⸢ag⸣-gu lib₃-ba-ša₂ ḫa-še-e-ša₂ ⸢lu⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [...] x-šu₂ NIMGIR-ia tap-šu-uḫ-tu₂ aš₂-x [...] | |
| 7' | [...]-⸢ti⸣-ik 2tum MU.AN.NA il-[...] | |
| 8' | [...] x ⸢uš⸣-te-eš-še-ra ka-ra-ši ⸢ab⸣-[...] | |
| 9' | [...]-⸢ia⸣ lu-u ḫa-mut-ti x [...] | |
| 10' | [...] x i-kar-⸢ra-bu⸣ x [...] | |
| 11' | [...] (x) x ŠU x [...] |
Sources & licences
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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