Position in chronology
Esarhaddon 108
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 4(i 1') [...] ... [...] ... [...] matter. They were afflicted by [thie]ving (and) murdering. They were stealing from [the po]or (and) giving to the mighty; there was oppression (and) (i 10′) the taking of bribes in the city. Every day, without ceasing, they stole goods from each other, a son (i 15′) cursed his father in the street, a slave [...] to his owner, (ii 1') [...] ... [... His mood] became [furious. The Enlil] of the god[s, the lord of] the lands, plotted evilly to [scat]ter the land and people; (ii 10′) his heart schemed to level the land and to destroy its people. A bitter curse was…
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[...] x [...]1 / [...] LU [...] / [...] a-ma-ta / [ḫa]-ba-lu šag-ga-šu / [ina] zu-um-ri-ši-na / iš-šá-kin-ma / [en]-šu i-ḫab-bi-lu / [i]-šar-ra-ku a-na dan-ni / ina qé-reb URU dul-lu-lu / ma-ḫar kàd-re-e / ib-ba-ši-ma / UD-šam* la na-par-ka-a2 / im-šu-ʾu NÍG.ŠU.MEŠ ša a-ḫa-meš / ma-a-ru ina su-ú-qi / e-ta-ra-ar AD-šu / re-e-šu a-na EN-šu / [...] x [...]3 / [ka-bat-tuš iṣ]-ṣa-[ri-iḫ] /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003337.
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/Q003337/..
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/Q003337/.
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