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Two complete barrel cylinders from Kalḫu and fragments from five other cylinders contain an abbreviated summary of the events recounted on text no. 1 (Nineveh A). The inscription ends with a building account concerned with the construction of an arsenal in Kalḫu. The text is dated to 672 BC. This text is commonly referred to as Kalḫu A (Klch. A).
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Exs. 2–4 could be duplicates of text no. 78 ex. 1 (ND 7097+) rather than of this inscription. The first thirty-nine lines duplicate text no. 78 (Kalḫu B) lines 1–36, text no. 93 (Tarbiṣu A) lines 1–21, and text no. 79 (ND 5404a+) lines 1–33. A score of this inscription is provided on the CD-ROM. Ex. 6 was partially collated from the published photo. The visible and legible lines (1–2, 35–49, and 58–64) appear in the score, and the variants noted by P. Hulin are cited in the minor variants. Ex. 7 does not appear in the score since it was unavailable for study. Ex. 6 is dated to the same day as text no. 93 (Tarbiṣu A) and at least one copy of Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty (Parpola and Watanabe, SAA 2 pp. xi–xx and 58), within days of when the treaty itself had been enacted (Borger, BIWA p. 15).
Three complete barrel cylinders discovered in the living quarters of the rab ekalli in Fort Shalmaneser at Kalḫu and fragments from three other cylinders contain a summary of events later recounted more fully in text no. 1 (Nineveh A). The inscription ends with a building account concerned with the rebuilding of Kalḫu. The text is dated to 676 BC. This text is commonly referred to as Kalḫu B (Klch. B).
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| (1) BM - (+) IM 075889 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P429079/] (ND 07097 (+) ND 09903) | (2) ND 07098 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P429080/] | (3) ND 07099 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P225251/] |
| (4) ND 07100 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P225252/] | (5) K 01652 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P393947/] | (6) K 01659 (+) Sumer 44 p. 154 no. 6 (+) Sumer 44 p. 154 no. 7 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/sources/P393953/] |
ND 7097 and ND 9903 (ex. 1) probably come from the same object, but the join, which was suggested by J. Novotny, cannot be confirmed since ND 7097 is in the British Museum and ND 9903 is in the Iraq Museum; the international join is indicated here as a non-physical join. E. Weissert proposed that K 1659, Sumer 44 (1985–86) p. 154 no. 6, and Sumer 44 (1985–86) p. 154 no. 7 belong to the same cylinder (ex. 6). The first thirty-six lines duplicate text no. 77 (Kalḫu A) lines 1–39 and text no. 93 (Tarbiṣu A) lines 1–21. A score of this inscription is provided on the CD-ROM. Exs. 3–4 are not included in the score, since these unpublished cylinders were not available for study. However, the variants of ex. 4 noted by A.R. Millard are cited in the minor variants, and the text of lines 37–44, a copy of which has been published, appears in the score.
A fragmentary barrel cylinder from Kalḫu contains an abbreviated summary of the events recounted on text no. 1 (Nineveh A). The inscription ends with an account of a building project for Esarhaddon's son Ashurbanipal. The text is dated to 672 BC.
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Now held in the British Museum, ND 5404a + 4379b + 5404b (+) 4379a + 4379c + 4379d + 5404c consists of two pieces, which likely belong to the same cylinder. According to an unpublished Nimrud catalogue, all of these pieces appear to have been found in secondary contexts in the Nabû temple in Kalḫu during the campaigns of 1955 (ND 4379a–d) and 1956 (ND 5404a–c).
Because the beginning of all of the Kalḫu cylinders is relatively uniform, the left half (ND 5404a + 4379b + 5404b) could be from a duplicate of text no. 77 (Kalḫu A) or text no. 78 (Kalḫu B) and not from the same cylinder as ND 4379a+. Wiseman (Iraq 26 p. 122) originally thought that ND 5404a–c were pieces of a duplicate of text no. 77. However, the text on ND 4379a+ diverges significantly from that of text no. 77. The first thirty-three lines duplicate text no. 77 (Kalḫu A) lines 1–35, text no. 78 (Kalḫu B) lines 1–33, and text no. 93 (Tarbiṣu A) lines 1–19. In addition, the end of the inscription shows some affinity with text no. 93 lines 25–40. Like text no. 77 and text no. 93, this cylinder is dated around the time Ashurbanipal was promoted to the position of heir designate of Assyria (672 BC).
A fragment of a clay cylinder from Kalḫu contains an inscription, certainly belonging to Esarhaddon, describing the rebuilding of the arsenal in Kalḫu. The edition is based on the published copy since the object was not available for study.
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Two sets of stone blocks in the wall east of the postern gate of Fort Shalmaneser contain a building inscription stating that Esarhaddon worked on the arsenal of Kalḫu. The two sets of stone blocks on the wall west of the gate, which bear a nearly identical inscription, are edited as text no. 82. The stone blocks were left in situ.
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One set of stone blocks, the one that appears in the photograph published by Reade, consists of two blocks, while the number of blocks used in the other set is not known. There are no known variants to the inscription and therefore no score for this text is presented on the CD-ROM.
Two sets of stone blocks in the wall west of the postern gate of Fort Shalmaneser contain a building inscription stating that Esarhaddon worked on the arsenal of Kalḫu. The two sets of stone blocks on the wall east of the gate, which bear a nearly identical inscription, are edited as text no. 81. The stone blocks were left in situ.
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One set of stone blocks, the one that appears in the photograph published by Russell, consists of three blocks, while the number of blocks used in the other set is not known. There are no known variants to the inscription and therefore no score for this text is presented on the CD-ROM.
Two stone bull colossi forming the door jambs on either side of a monumental portal in the Southwest Palace at Kalḫu bear a proprietary inscription of Esarhaddon. This text and the following three texts are commonly referred to as Kalḫu D (Klch. D).
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The inscription is written on the back of the bull colossi and neither of the exemplars were collated because the bulls were left in situ. The line numbering follows that of bull no. 1. A score is presented on the CD-ROM.
Two stone bull colossi forming the door jambs on either side of a monumental portal in the Southwest Palace at Kalḫu bear a proprietary inscription of Esarhaddon. This text is also commonly referred to as Kalḫu D (Klch. D).
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The inscription is written on the back of the bull colossi and neither of the exemplars were collated because the bulls were left in situ. The line numbering follows that of bull no. 1. There are no known variants to the inscription and therefore no score for this text is presented on the CD-ROM.
Two stone human-headed lions forming the door jambs were found on either side of a monumental portal in the Southwest Palace at Kalḫu. One of these bears a proprietary inscription of Esarhaddon. This text, which was not collated because the lion was left in situ, is also commonly referred to as Kalḫu D (Klch. D).
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A text on a stone slab seen and copied by a Russian traveler, Mr. Dittel, at Kalḫu in 1845 has a short proprietary inscription. This text, which was probably left in the field, is also commonly referred to as Kalḫu D (Klch. D).
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The inscription, which is known only from the copy published by Savélieff, differs in several passages from the preceding texts (also commonly referred to as Kalḫu D). Because of these differences, since the original is not available for study, and since the line divisions and space available are not known with certainty, I have not reconstructed most of the missing text in the transliteration. For transliterations of the missing, damaged sections of this inscription, compare text nos. 83–85. It is entirely possible that the inscription on this object is actually one of the other known Nimrud inscriptions, but miscopied and therefore giving the impression that it is a different text.
An inscription on a limestone slab describes Esarhaddon's waterworks program in the vicinity of Kalḫu and mentions that Ashurnasirpal II had a canal dug from the Upper Zab River to Kalḫu. This text is commonly referred to as Kalḫu C (Klch. C) and the "Negub Inscription."
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The script is a mixture of Assyrian and contemporary Babylonian sign forms and horizontal rulings separate each line. The edition relies on Bagg's edition since the original object was not available for study.
Erle Leichty
Erle Leichty, 'Kalḫu, Part 1', RINAP 4: Esarhaddon, The RINAP 4 sub-project of the RINAP Project, 2019 [http://oracc.org/rinap/rinap4/rinap4textintroductions/kalhu/]