Esarhaddon 113

~675 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·Q003342

Translation — scholar edition

RINAP 4

High confidence

(1) Esarhaddon, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, chosen by the god Marduk (and) the goddess Zarpanītu, true shepherd, favorite of the god Aššur and the goddess Mullissu, the king who from his childhood trusted in the gods Nabû, Tašmētu, and Nanāya and (5) knew their power; son of Sennacherib, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria; descendant of Sargon (II), great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad; descendant of the eternal line of…

Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

mAN.ŠÁR-ŠEŠ-SUM.NA LUGAL GAL-ú LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL kiš-šat LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI / GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.RA.KI LUGAL KUR EME.GI₇ ù URI.KI ni-bit dAMAR.UTU dNUMUN-DÙ-tu / SIPA ke-e-nu mi-gir AN.ŠÁR ù dNIN.LÍL / LUGAL šá ul-tu ṣe-ḫe-ri-šú a-na dAG dtaš-me-tum ù dna-na-a it-tak-lu-ma / e-mu-ru da-na-an-šú-un A md30-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-SU LUGAL GAL-ú LUGAL dan-nu / LUGAL kiš-šat LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI A mMAN-GIN LUGAL…

Scholarly note

Royal inscription of Esarhaddon, edited by Erle Leichty (RINAP 4, 2011). ORACC text Q003342.

Attribution

Image: Created by Erle Leichty, 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/Q003342/..
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/Q003342/.

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