Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 050
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] ... [... the Enlil] of the gods, [... the sun] of all of the people, [... eternal royal seed, precious] offspring of Baltil (Aššur) [... who] sets straight [...] ... [...]
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/Q003279/
Why it matters
Preserves fragmentary titulary of Esarhaddon equating the king with Enlil and the solar deity — stock epithets that grounded Assyrian royal ideology in cosmic, not merely political, authority.
Transliteration
[...] x u x [...] / [... dEN.LÍL].LÁ DINGIR.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] / [... dUTU]-šú kiš-šat UN.⸢MEŠ⸣ [...] / [... NUMUN LUGAL-ti da-ru]-u NUNUZ bal-til.⸢KI⸣ [...] / [...] ⸢muš-te⸣-šir [...] / [...] x x [...]1
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003279.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P398451). source
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/Q003279/.
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