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Esarhaddon 103
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [The gods Aššur, Anu, Enlil], Ea, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Marduk, [Ištar, (and) the Sebitti, the great gods], all of them, who decree destiny (and) give might and victory [to the king], their [favorite, Esarhaddon, great king], mighty [king], king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, [king of Sumer and Akkad], king of Karduniaš (Babylonia), (king of) all of them, king of the kings of [(Lower) Egypt, Upper Egypt, and] Kush, king of the four quarters; son of Sennacherib, [great king, migh]ty [king], king of the world, king of Assyria — (7b) With rejoicing and jubilation, I went into the city Memphis,…
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/Q003332/
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Transliteration
[AN.ŠÁR da-nu dBAD d]é-a d30 [d]UTU dIŠKUR dAMAR.UTU / [dINANNA d7.BI DINGIR.MEŠ GAL].ME DÙ-šu-nu mu-šim-mu šim-ti / [ša ana LUGAL mi-gir]-šú-un i-šar-ra-ku da-na-an u li-i-tú / [maš-šur-PAP-AŠ LUGAL GAL MAN] dan-nu MAN KUR aš-šur.KI GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI / [LUGAL KUR šu-me-ri ù URI.KI] LUGAL KUR.kár-ddun-ía-àš DÙ-šú-un LUGAL LUGAL.ME / [KUR.mu-ṣur KUR.pa-tu-ri-su u] KUR.ku-u-si MAN kib-rat…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003332.
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/Q003332/..
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/Q003332/.
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