Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 075
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) I, Aššur-etel-ilāni-mukīn-apli, king of the world, king of Assyria, son of Sennacherib, (5) king of the world (and) king of Assyria, descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world (and) king of Assyria; the one who (re)constructed the temple of the god Aššur, (re)built Esagil (10) and Babylon, restored the shrines of cult centers, completed (15) the rites, (and) (re)confirmed the offerings of the great gods, am I.
Source: Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q003304/
Why it matters
Esarhaddon's self-presentation as restorer of Esagil and Babylon documents the ideological rehabilitation of Babylonian cult after Sennacherib's destruction of the city in 689 BCE.
Transliteration
a-na-ku / maš-šur-e-tel-DINGIR.MEŠ-GIN-A / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / A m30-PAP.ME-SU / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / A mMAN-GIN MAN ŠÚ / MAN KUR AŠ-ma / DÙ-u É AN.ŠÁR / DÙ-ìš é-sag-gíl / u KÁ.DINGIR.KI / mu-ud-diš / eš-re-e-ti / šá ma-ḫa-zi / mu-šak-líl / par-ṣi / mu-kin SÁ.DUG₄ / šá DINGIR.ME GAL.ME / ana-ku-ma
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of an Assyrian king, published in the Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online project (RIAo). Translation reproduced from the ORACC edition. ORACC text Q003304.
Attribution
Image: BM 113864 (British Museum, London, UK) — from uncertain (mod. Kalah Shergat) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P345495). source
Translation excerpted from Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo), Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; in association with the RINAP Project, University of Pennsylvania. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/Q003304/.
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