Esarhaddon 2003
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| i 1'1' | (i 1') [I, Zakūtu/Naqīʾa, (...) wife of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria], [daug]hter-in-law of [Sarg]on (II), king of the world, king of [Assyria], (i 5′) mother of Es[arh]addon, king of the world (and) king of Assyria; the gods Aššur, Sî[n], Šamaš, Nabû, and Marduk, [Ištar of Ninev]eh, (and) [Ištar of Arbela], | |
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| ii 1'1' | x x [...]1 | (ii 1') ...[ ... who] flattened [his foes and] fastened lead-ropes on the kings of the [four] quarters — |
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| ii 6'6' | (ii 6') He (Esarhaddon) gave to me as my lordly share the inhabitants of conquered lands, foes plundered by his bow. I made them carry hoe (and) basket, and they made bricks. | |
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| ii 16'16' | (ii 16') [I ...] a cleared tract of land in the citadel of (the city of) Nineveh, [be]hind the temple of the gods Sîn and Šamaš, [for a] royal [residence of Esarh]addon, my [beloved son, ...] ... | |
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| ii 22'22' | [...] x | |
| ii 23'23' | [...] x | |
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| iii 1'1' | [...] x2 | (iii 1') [...] ... [...] I roof[ed it with ...] (and) I installed matching doors of cypress, a gift for my son, in its gates. I built (and) completed that house (and) filled (it) with splendor. |
| iii 2'2' | [...] x | |
| iii 3'3' | [...] x | |
| iii 4'4' | x [...] x | |
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| iii 13'13' | (iii 13') I invited the gods Aššur, Ninurta, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad and Ištar, Nabû and Marduk, (and) the gods who reside in Nineveh inside it and [offered] sumptuous pure offerings before [them]. | |
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| iv 1'1' | LUGAL [...] | (iv 1') king [...] over ... [...] whatever ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] |
| iv 2'2' | UGU x [...] | |
| iv 3'3' | mim-⸢ma⸣ x [...] | |
| iv 4'4' | x [...] | |
| iv 5'5' | ⸢ru⸣-[...] | |
| iv 6'6' | a-šib x [...] | (iv 6') who resides [...] may [...] endure. The [...] šēdu (and) the safeguarding lamassu took care of its interior and constantly looked after (it). |
| iv 7'7' | lil-bur [...] | |
| iv 8'8' | dALAD x [...] | |
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| iv 13'13' | (iv 13') I invited Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, my beloved son, inside [it and] estab[lished] ... [...] | |
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| iv 19'19' | x [...] | |
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| v 1'1' | [...]-⸢šu⸣ | (v 1') [...] ... [...] I had [...] ... instituted. [I ...] for Esarh[addon, my] be[loved] son, anything of value that a palace requires (and) is befitting kingship. |
| v 2'2' | x x (x) x-⸢ki⸣ | |
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1The 2011 print edition of RINAP 4 overlooked this line and, therefore, the line count of this column now differs by one line; ii 2´–22´ = ii 1´–21´ of the old edition.
2Two lines at the beginning of this column were not included in RINAP 4. Therefore, the line count of this column now differs by two lines; iii 3´–22´ = RINAP 4 iii 3´–20´.
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/Q003405/.