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Esarhaddon 136
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) For the goddess Nanāya, queen of Uruk, great lady, his lady: (2) Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad; who is assiduous toward the sanctuaries of the great gods; the one who (re)constructed the temple of the god Aššur, (re)built Esagil and Babylon, (5) renovated Eanna, completed the sanctuaries of all of the cult centers, (and) constantly established appropriate procedures in them; the one who conquered from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea (and) the one who made all rulers submissive to him; son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria; descendant of…
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/Q003365/
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Transliteration
a-na dna-na-a šar-rat UNUG.KI GAŠAN GAL-ti GAŠAN-šú / mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA MAN KUR aš-šur GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI / MAN KUR šu-me-ri u URI.KI muš-te-eʾ-u áš-rat DINGIR.ME GAL.ME / ba-nu-u É AN.ŠÁR e-piš é-sag-íl u KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI / mu-ud-diš é-an-na mu-šak-líl eš-ret kul-lat ma-ḫa-zi / ša ina qer-bi-ši-na iš-tak-ka-nu si-ma-a-ti / ka-šid ul-tu tam-tim e-li-ti a-di tam-tim šap-li-ti / ša gi-mir…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003365.
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/Q003365/..
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/Q003365/.
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