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Esarhaddon 058
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) [Esarhaddon], king of the wor[ld], king of Ass[yria], piou[s] prin[ce], belove[d of] the god Aššu[r] and the goddess Mu[llissu], upon whom (i 10) you placed your protection and whom you safeguarded for kingship, all of [whose] enemies (ii 1) [you killed and] whose [wi]sh [you caused (him) to attain, up]on whose [father’s] throne you placed in greatness, and whom you entrusted with the lordship of the lands; (ii 10) son of Sennacherib, king of the world, [kin]g of Assyria, the one who made the statues of the god Aššur and the great gods; (iii 1) descendant of Sargon (II), king of 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/Q003287/
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Transliteration
[mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA] / LUGAL kiš-⸢šá?⸣-[ti] / LUGAL KUR aš-⸢šur⸣.KI / ru?-⸢bu?⸣-[ú] / na-a-⸢du⸣ / na-⸢ram⸣ / da-⸢šur₄⸣ / ⸢ù⸣ d⸢NIN⸣.[LÍL] / ša ṣu-lul-⸢ku⸣-nu / UGU-⸢šú⸣ / ⸢taš⸣-ku-nu-ma / tan-ṣu-ru-šú / a-na LUGAL-ti / gi-mì-ir / za-ma-ni-[šú] / [ta-na-ru-ma] / [tu-šak-ši-du] / [ni]-⸢iz⸣-ma-⸢su⸣ / [i]-⸢na GIŠ.GU⸣.ZA / [AD]-šú ra?-⸢biš⸣ / ⸢tu⸣-še-ši-bu-šú-ma / be-lu-ut KUR.KUR / tu-⸢šad⸣-gi-lu /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003287.
Attribution
Image: Created by Erle Leichty, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003287/..
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/Q003287/.
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