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Esarhaddon 006
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) [...] ... [... I cried out in] mourning, [I raged like a lion, and my] mood [became furio]us. [In order to exercise kingship (over) the house of my father I beat] my hands together. [I prayed to the gods Aššur, Sîn, Šamaš, Bēl, Nabû, and Nergal], Ištar of Nineveh, (and) [Ištar of Arbela and they accepted] my word(s). [With their firm ‘yes’], they were sending me [reliable omen(s), (saying): ‘Go! Do not hold back! We] will go and [kill your enemies].’ (i 9b') I did [not] hesitate [one day (or) two days. I did not wait for my army. I did not] look [for my rear guard. I did not check the…
Source: Leichty, E. 2011. The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC). RINAP 4. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap4/Q003235/
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Transliteration
[...] x x x1 / [... ú-šá-aṣ-ri]-⸢ḫa⸣ si-pit-tu / [lab-biš an-na-dir-ma iṣ-ṣa]-⸢ri⸣-iḫ ka-bat-ti / [áš-šú e-peš LUGAL-u-ti É AD-ia ar]-⸢pi⸣-sa rit-ti-ía / [a-na daš-šur d30 dUTU dEN dAG u dU].⸢GUR⸣ d15 šá NINA.KI / [d15 šá URU.LÍMMU-DINGIR qa-ti áš-ši-ma im-gu]-⸢ru⸣ qí-bi-ti / [ina an-ni-šú-nu ke-nim UZU ta-kil-ti iš]-⸢tap⸣-pa-ru-nim-ma / [a-lik la ka-la-a-ta i-da-a-ka ni-it]-⸢tal⸣-lak-ma /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003235.
Attribution
Image: Created by Erle Leichty, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011, 2017. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, and updated by him, 2017, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003235/..
Translation excerpted from Leichty, E. 2011. The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC). RINAP 4. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap4/Q003235/.
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