Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 127
Translation · reference
High confidence(1') [...] ... [...] ... [...] (2') [... w]ho to his ... not ... [...] (3') [...] ... paid attention to the mention of his name, his command [...] (4') [...] brings quickly before [...] (5') [... unsub]missive to the comma[nd] (6') [...] destroyed [that] one, making the inhabited world shake (7') [...] the god, his helper, (8') [... wi]th his help, they knelt, beseeching his lordship (9') [...] did not bear my yoke (lit. “pull my yoke-rope”) (10') [who took] away [the fields of the citizens of Babylon and Borsippa], appropriating (them) for himself (11') [...] did not fear his command or 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/Q003356/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[...] x x [...] x x x x (x) [...] / [...] ⸢šá?⸣ a-na (x) x.⸢MEŠ⸣-šú la IG x [x x x x] / [...] x-ti zi-kir MU-šú it-ú-du qí-bit-⸢su⸣ [x x x x] / [...] ⸢ú⸣-šaḫ-ma-ṭu ma-ḫar [...] / [... la] ⸢ma⸣-gi-ru qí-bi-⸢ti⸣ / [... šu]-⸢a?-ti⸣ ú-šal-pít ú-reb-bu da-ad-⸢mu⸣ [(x)] / [...] ⸢DINGIR⸣ ti-ik-li-šú / [... i?]-na tukul-ti-šú kit-mu-su ú-sap-pu-ú be*-lut-su1 / [...] x la ⸢i⸣-šu-ṭu ab-šá-ni / [šá?…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003356.
Attribution
Image: Created by Erle Leichty, Grant Frame, 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/Q003356/..
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/Q003356/.
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