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Esarhaddon 134
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For the goddess Ištar-of-Uruk, sovereign of heaven and netherworld, most valiant of the gods, august, supreme lady, who has gathered to herself (all) divine offices of highest rank, the one into whose hand all purification rites are appointed, empress of the goddesses, whose words are pre-eminent in heaven and netherworld, goddess of war and battle, who goes at the side of the king, her favorite, (and) slays his foes, who dwells in Enirgalana (“House, Prince of Heaven) — which is inside Eanna — lady of Uruk, great lady, his lady: (6) Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria,…
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/Q003363/
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Transliteration
a-na dINANNA UNUG.KI e-tel-let AN-e u KI-tim qa-rit-ti DINGIR.MEŠ ṣir-ti / GAŠAN šur-bu-tú ḫa-mì-mat pa-ra-aṣ da-nù-u-tú ša na-gab šu-luḫ-ḫu šu-up-qu-ud-du qa-tuš-šá / šá-nu-kàt i-la-a-te ša ina er-me a-nu ù ki-gal-li šur-ru-ḫu zik-ru-šá1 / i-lat MURUB₄ ù ta-ḫa-zi a-li-kàt i-di LUGAL mi-gir-i-šá mu-ra-áš-ši-bat ga-re-e-šú / a-ši-bat é-nir-gál-an-na ša qé-reb é-an-na GAŠAN UNUG.KI GAŠAN GAL-ti…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003363.
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/Q003363/..
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/Q003363/.
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