Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 1012
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [...] king of the land Urarṭu [...] ... [...] not carry, the plunder of [...] whom (my) father, who engendered me, ... [...] ... [... the god] Enlil concerning [...] (r 1') [...] the land Ba[...] ... [...] ... [...] my head [...] over it/him ... [...] they committed an offense against him (and) ... [... -š]uma-iškun, son of Nin[...] ... I placed on his throne. [...]
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/Q003384/
Why it matters
Attests Esarhaddon's intervention in Urarṭu and his installation of a throne-claimant whose name ends in -šuma-iškun, fragmentary evidence for Assyrian proxy rule on its northern frontier ca. 675 BCE.
Transliteration
[...] ⸢MAN KUR.ur⸣-ar-ṭa-⸢ma⸣ [x (x)] ⸢še⸣-tu-⸢ú⸣-[...] / [...] x la na-šé-e ⸢ḫu⸣-bu-ut ša [...] / [...] ⸢šá⸣ AD ba-ni-ia iš-ta-[...] / [...]-⸢al⸣-lu-ú [...] / [... d]⸢EN⸣.LÍL áš-šu x [...] / [...] ⸢KUR.ba⸣-x [...] / [...] la ni-i-x [...] / [...]-⸢su⸣ šik-nat la-[...] / [...] SAG-ia UGU-šú ⸢ú⸣-[...] / [...] ⸢iḫ⸣-ṭu-ú UGU-šú ú-x [...] / [...]-⸢MU⸣-GAR-un DUMU md⸢nin⸣-[...] / [...]-⸢ti⸣ ina GIŠ.GU.ZA-šú ú-še-⸢šib⸣ [...]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003384.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P395560). 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/Q003384/.
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