Esarhaddon 107

~675 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003336

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Cols. i—iv missing (v 1) [from] gold, [each of] who[se weight is fifty minas]. (vi 1) I bui[lt] (and) comple[ted Nēmed-Enlil, its outer wall, (and) had] (it) filled with [spl]endor, (making it) an object of wonder for [al]l of the people. (vi 7) [I] returned [the plun]dered [god]s of the lands [from As]syria [and the land] Elam [to] their [place] and [I set up proper procedures in a]ll of [the cult centers]. (vii 1) I restored [their interrupted privileged status] that had fallen into disuse. (vii 10) I wrote anew the tablet of their exemptions. I opened roads for them in all directions so…

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/Q003336/

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Transliteration

[nab-nit] KÙ.GI / [šá 50 MA.NA].TA.ÀM1 / [KI.LÁ]-šú-nu / ar-[ṣip] / ú-šak-[lil] / a-na tab-rat / [kiš]-šat UN.MEŠ / [la]-la-a / [uš]-ma-al-li / [DINGIR].MEŠ KUR.KUR2 / [šal]-lu-ú-te / [ul-tu] qé-reb / [aš]-šur.KI / [ù KUR].ELAM.MA.KI / [a-na KI]-šú-nu / [ú]-ter / [ù i-na kul]-lat / [ki-di-nu-us-su-nu] / [ba-ṭil-ti] / ša ina ŠU.II / ip-par-ši-du / a-na KI-šá / ú-ter / ṭup-⸢pi⸣ / za-ku-ti-šú-nu /…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003336.

Attribution

Image: Created by Erle Leichty, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011, 2015-16. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, and updated by him, 2015-16, for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003336/..
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/Q003336/.

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