Position in chronology
Sennacherib 019
Translation · reference
High confidence(i' 1') [I added ... pay]ment [and] imposed (it) [upon them]. (i' 3'b) [As for him, He]zekiah, [fear of] my lordly [brilliance (i´ 5´) overwhelmed him and he had] the auxiliary forces [and his] elite [troops whom he] had brought [inside the city Jeru]salem, [his royal city, along with 30 talents of gold], 800 talents of silver, (i´ 10´) [every kind of treasure] of his palace, [as well as his daughters], his palace [women, male singers, (and) female singers brought in]to Nineveh and he sent a moun]ted messenger of his to me [to deliver (this) pay]ment. (i' 15') [On my fourth campaign, I…
Source: Grayson, A.K. & Novotny, J. 2012–2014. The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC). RINAP 3. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003493/
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Transliteration
[... man]-⸢da⸣-at-⸢tú⸣ / [ú-rad-di-ma] ú-kin1 / [ṣe-ru-uš-šu-un šu-ú mḫa]-⸢za⸣-qi-a-a-ú / [pul-ḫi me-lam-me] ⸢be⸣-lu-ti-ia / [is-ḫu-pu-šu-ma] ⸢LÚ⸣.úr-bi2 / [ù LÚ.ERIM.MEŠ-šú] ⸢SIG₅⸣.MEŠ / [ša a-na qé-reb URU.ur]-sa-li-im-ma / [URU LUGAL-ti-šú ú]-⸢še⸣-ri-bu-ma / [it-ti 30 GUN KÙ.GI] ⸢8⸣ ME GUN KÙ.BABBAR3 / [mim-ma šum-šu ni-ṣir]-⸢ti⸣ É.GAL-šú4 / [ù DUMU.MUNUS.MEŠ-šú MUNUS.UN.MEŠ] É.GAL-šú /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003493.
Attribution
Image: Created by A. Kirk Grayson, Jamie Novotny, and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2012. Lemmatized by Jamie Novotny, 2011. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/rinap/Q003493/..
Translation excerpted from Grayson, A.K. & Novotny, J. 2012–2014. The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC). RINAP 3. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/Q003493/.
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