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Esarhaddon's Nahr al-Kalb Inscription: inscription, just north of Beirut in modern Lebanon, documenting the Assyrian conquest of Egypt in 671 BCE. Assyria and Egypt. Esarhaddon's inscription. In the first quarter of the seventh century BCE, king Esarhaddon (r.680-669) tightened the Assyrian grip on the cities of Phoenicia.
The volume provides reliable, up-to-date editions of all of the known royal inscriptions of Esarhaddon, a son of Sennacherib who ruled Assyria for twelve years (680-669 BC).
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Erle Leichty. The Royal Inscription of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC) is the inaugural volume of the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project. The volume provides reliable, up-to-date editions of all of the known royal inscriptions of Esarhaddon, a son of Sennacherib who ruled Assyria for twelve years (680–669 BC).
In an inscription describing his appointment as crown prince and his rise to power, Esarhaddon uses the following royal titles: Esarhaddon, the great king, king of Assyria, viceroy of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad , king of the four regions of the earth , favorite of the great gods, his lords.
The Royal Inscription of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC) is the inaugural volume of the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project. The volume provides reliable, up-to-date editions of all of the known royal inscriptions of Esarhaddon, a son of Sennacherib who ruled Assyria for twelve years (680–669 BC).
Title: Cuneiform prism: inscription of Esarhaddon. Period: Neo-Assyrian. Date: ca. 676–672 BCE. Geography: Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah) Culture: Assyrian. Medium: Clay. Dimensions: 2.89 x 3.25 in. (7.35 x 8.26 cm) Credit Line: Purchase, 1886. Accession Number: 86.11.278
Esarhaddon states in his own inscriptions that he entered Nineveh on the eighth of Addaru (XII), but a Babylonian Chronicle records that unrest in Assyria ended on the second of that month and that Esarhaddon ascended the throne of Assyria on either the eighteenth or twenty-eighth of Addaru.
