Esarhaddon 2004 (Q003406)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Esarhaddon 2004 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003406 |
| 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 [0:5] 1'1'–5'5' | [...] king [... Zakūtu/Naqīʾa ... wi]fe ... [... Sennach]erib, king of the world, [king of Assyria, daughter-in-law of Sargon (II), king of the world, k]ing of [Assyria, mother of Esar]haddon, king of the world (and) king of [Assyria]; |
| Obverse [5:11] 6'6'–11'11' | [the gods Aššur, Sîn], Šamaš, Nabû, and Marduk, Ištar of Nineveh, (and) [Ištar of Arbela] glad[ly placed Esarha]ddon, my offspring, upon the throne of his father, [... whose] good ... [...] they made pre-[eminent ...] who marched [... from the] Upper [Sea] to the Low[er] Sea (and) who does not [have] an equal (therein); (and) who flattened his [foes] and fastened lead-[ropes] on the kings of the four quarters — |
| Obverse [11:14] 12'12'–14'14' | He (Esarhaddon) gave [to me as] my lordly [share] (and) as a gift [the inhabitants of] conquered [lands], foes plundered by [his bow]. I made them carry [hoe (and) ba]sket, and they [made bricks]. |
| Obverse [14:15] 15'15'–15'15' | [I ... a cleared tract of land in] the citadel of (the city of) Nineveh, be[hind the temple of the gods Sîn and Šamaš], |
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' | [...] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [... MUNUS].E₂.GAL MUNUS].E₂.GAL x [...] | |
| 3' | {[m}{d}30PAP.MEŠ]-⸢SU⸣ LUGAL kiš-ša₂-⸢ti⸣ [LUGAL KUR aš-šur{ki]} | |
| 4' | [kal-lat {m}MAN-GI.NA LUGAL kiš-ša₂-ti] ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR [KUR aš-šur{ki]} | |
| 5' | [AMA {m}aš-šur]-⸢ŠEŠ⸣-SUM.NA LUGAL kiš-[ša₂]-ti LUGAL KUR [aš-šur{ki}ma] | |
| 6' | {[d}aš-šur {d}30 {⸢d⸣}UTU {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU {d}15 ša₂ NINA{ki} {⸢d⸣}15 ša₂ LIMMU₂-DINGIR{ki]} | |
| 7' | {[m}aš-šur-ŠEŠ]-SUM.NA DUMU ṣi-it lib₃-bi-ia ina {giš}GU.ZA AD-šu₂ ṭa-⸢biš⸣ [u₂-ši-bu] | |
| 8' | [...] x dam-qu u₂-še-ṣu-u₂ a-na ⸢re⸣-[še-ti] | |
| 9' | [ul-tu tam]-⸢tim⸣ e-li-ti a-di tam-tim šap-[li-ti] | |
| 10' | [...] ⸢it⸣-tal-la-ku-ma ma-ḫi-ra la ⸢i⸣-[šu-u] | |
| 11' | [... ga-re]-e-šu₂ is-pu-nu-ma LUGAL.MEŠ ša₂ kib-rat LIMMU₂-tim id-du-u ⸢ṣer⸣-[re-e-tu₂] | |
| 12' | [UN.MEŠ KUR.KUR] ⸢ki⸣-šit-ti na-ki-ri ḫu-bu-ut {giš}[PAN-šu₂] | |
| 13' | [ša a-na eš-qi₂] be-lu-ti-ia a-na ši-rik-ti ⸢iš-ru⸣-[ka] | |
| 14' | {[giš}al-lu] ⸢tup⸣-šik-ku u₂-ša₂-aš₂-ši-šu₂-nu-ti-ma ⸢il⸣-[bi-nu SIG₄] | |
| 15' | [qaq-qa-ru pu-ṣe-e ina] ⸢MURUB₄ URU ša₂ NINA⸣{ki} ku-[tal E₂ {d}30 u {d}UTU] |
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