Esarhaddon 081


Obverse
11	KUR ^maš-šur-PAP-AŠ MAN GAL MAN dan-nu MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ GÌR.NÍTA KÁ.DINGIR.KI1	(1) The palace of Esarhaddon, great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria, governor of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, son of Sennacherib, king of the world (and) king of Assyria, descendant of Sargon (II), king of the world (and) king of Assyria — (with regard to) the armory, which is in Kalḫu, that Shalmaneser (III), king of Assyria, son of Ashurnasirpal (II), a ruler who came before me, had built, I incorporated unused land as an addition (to it), raised the terrace with massive stones from the mountains, (and) built a palace for my lordly pleasure on it.
22	MAN KUR EME.GI₇ u URI.KI A ^m^d30-PAP.MEŠ-SU MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur
33	DUMU ^mMAN-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR AŠ-ma É.GAL ma-šar-ti šá qé-reb URU.kal-ḫa2
44	šá ^m^dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KUR AŠ DUMU ^maš-šur-PAP-A NUN a-lik pa-ni-ia
55	e-pu-šú qaq-qa-ru ki-šub-ba-a ki-ma a-tar-tim-ma lu aṣ-ba-ta
66	ina eš-qi NA₄ KUR-e tam-la-a uš-mal-li É.GAL
77	a-na mul-ta-u-te be-lu-ti-⸢ia⸣ ab-ta-ni ṣe-ru-uš-šú

1KÁ.DINGIR.KI “Babylon”: RINAP 4 has KÁ.DINGIR.KI; the updated reading is based on collation (photograph).

2URU.kàl-ḫa “Kalḫu”: The reading is based on collation (photograph); the print edition of RINAP 4 has URU.kal-ḫa

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/Q003310/.