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THE HISTORY OF ESARHADDON 
(SON OF SENNACHERIB), KING OF ASSYRIA B.C. 681— 668. 
Translated from the Cuneiform Inscriptions upon Cylinders and Tablets 
in the British Museum Collection, 
TOGETHER WITH ORIGINAL TEXTS, A GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF EACH WoRD, 
EXPLANATIONS OF THE IDEOGRAPHS BY EXTRACTS FROM THE 
Bi-LINGUAL SYLLABARIES, AND LisT OF Eponyms, &c. 
By ERNEST A. BUDGE, M.R.A.S., 
Assyrian Exhibitioner, Christ’s College, Cambridge, Member of the Society of Biblical Archeology. 
The histories of Sennacherib and Assur-bani-pal, kings of Assyria, have already been 
written by the late Mr. George Smith. Sennacherib ruled over Assyria from B.c. 705 to 
B.c. 681; Assur-bani-pal from B.c. 668 to B.c. 626. But from B.c, 681 to B.c. 668 a king 
called Esarhaddon reigned, and the annals of this king have been translated to form the 
present history. Esarhaddon was the son of Sennacherib, and father of Assur-bani-pal. 
These were certainly three of the greatest kings that ever ruled over Assyria. Their reigns, 
taken together, cover nearly eighty years ; but an exact idea of the influence that this family 
had upon Assyria can only be made out clearly from the records and documents which they 
themselves caused to be written. 
Sennacherib was the true type of the oriental conqueror—delighting in war for its own 
sake, proud, cruel, and fond of power. The commencement, ‘Thus saith the Great King, the 
King of Assyria,” is the oft-repeated formula beginning all the inscriptions of this monarch. 
The sway of Esarhaddon was, however, milder, and although he warred as much as 
“ the king, his father, who went before,” yet he exhibits many signs of gentleness, and it is 
evident that he tried to pacify all those subjects that successful warfare had allowed him to 
conquer. It must be clear to all how valuable are the cuneiform inscriptions that give us 
the history of this monarch. 
Esarhaddon’s son, Assur-bani-pal, was the literary king par excellence, and he 
records of himself that ‘* Nebo and Tasmi! gave him broad ears, and his seeing eyes re- 
garded the engraved characters of the tablets, the secrets of Nebo, the literature of the 
library, as much as is suitable, on tablets I wrote, I engraved, I explained, and for the in- 
Spection of my subjects in the midst of my Palace I placed.” 
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