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Esarhaddon Cylinder Fragments from Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2014
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Fragments of four inscribed clay cylinders were found during the 1958 season of excavations at Fort Shalmaneser. Their provenance, the quarters of the rab-ekalli, has already been described by D. Oates in Iraq. The texts are in the main identical with the complete cylinder of Esarhaddon published by D. J. Wiseman in 1952, recording the reconstruction of the ekal-mašarti of Kalḫu in 672 B.C.
The four cylinders bear similar texts except for a few minor points of orthography. One fragment (ND. 7100) is dated 21st. Ab 676 B.C. and two others to the 10th. Elul of the same year (ND. 7097, 7098) while the date is missing from the fourth fragment (ND. 7099). The text of ll. 36–44 is copied below (Fig. 1) from ND. 7100 which furnishes the most complete example of the short building inscription concluding all four cylinders; variants and restorations being given from ND. 7097, 7098.
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l. 3 ND. 7098 ŠIB ki-i-nu; 7100 ŠIB ke-e-nu.
l. 4 7098 & 7100 ba-nu-u.
l. 5 7100 ba-nu-u.
l. 7 7100 KURaš-šur KIDIŠ.
l. 8 7100 É iš-tar … be-el-ti-šu.
l. 13 7100 ul-tu KI tim … a-di KI tim; 7097 še-pu-uš-šú.
l. 14 7097, 7098, 7100 na-ki-ri-ši… kan-šu-te-šú … ú-šak-ni-šu.
l. 15 7100 URUṣi-du-nu ša MURUB … gim-[mir].
l. 17 7100 ma-li-ke-e-šu … id-du-ú.
l. 19 7100 ú-ra-si-bu.
l. 21 7097 AMAR.UD.A.AŠ.
l. 22 7098 É mda-ku-ru.
l. 23 7098 ka-mu-u.
l. 25 7098 URUú-de-e-ri.
l. 27 7100 al-mi.
l. 32 7097 ru-qu-te.
l. 35 7097, 7100 kit-nu-šu; 7097 šá-a-šú-nu.
l. 36 7097 ka-bit-ti.
l. 38 7097, 7100 omit LUGAL ŠÚ.
l. 39 7097 [šu]-me-ri ù.
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16 7097 omits.
17 7097 omits ti.
18 7097 ša.
19 7097 ṣi-ru-uš-šú.
20 7097 šu-mi.
21 7097 šu-me-šú … ik-ri-bi-šú.
22 7097, 7098 ITI KIN.DINGIR U4X[KÁM].