Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 2006
Translation · reference
High confidence(r 1) To the queen, the goddess Mullissu, who resides in Ešarra, great queen, her lady: (r 2) Zakūtu, wife of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, daughter-in-law of Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, mother of Esarhaddon, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, commissioned a gold ... that was inlaid with obsidian, [...]-stone, carnelian, pappardilû-stone, papparminu-stone, [...]-stone, (and) lapis lazuli weighing 1 1/2 minas. (r 7b) She presented [and dedicated] (this object) for the preservation of (the life of) Esar[haddon, her son], and for her own life, for the lengthening of [her days], the stability of her reign, (and for) the well-being of her offspring.
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/Q003408/
Why it matters
Transliteration
ana ⸢šar⸣-rat dNIN.LÍL a-ši-bat é-šár-ra GAŠAN GAL-tú GAŠAN-šá1 / fza-ku-tú MUNUS.É.GAL ša mdEN.ZU-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba / MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI kal-lat mLUGAL-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ / AMA mAŠ-ŠEŠ-AŠ MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ-ma tu-še-piš-ma / al-gu-MES KÙ.GI ša tam-lit NA₄.ZÚ NA₄.[x x (x)]2 / NA₄.GUG NA₄.BABBAR.DILI NA₄.BABBAR.MIN₅ ⸢NA₄⸣.[x x (x)] / 1 1/2 MA.NA ZA.GÌN KI.LÁ a-na TI.LA maš-šur-[PAP-AŠ DUMU-šá]3 / ù šá-a-šá ana TI.LA-šá GÍD.DA [UD.MEŠ-šá] / GIN BALA.MEŠ-šá SILIM NUMUN-šá GÁ-[ma BA-ìš]
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003408.
Attribution
Image: Created by Erle Leichty, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2011, 2017. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2010, and updated by him, 2017, 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/Q003408/..
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/Q003408/.
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