Position in chronology
Sennacherib 021
Translation · reference
High confidence(i' 1') [... they became frightened on acc]ount of the vill[ainous acts they had committed. They formed a confederation with] the kings of [Egypt (and) the archers, c]hariots, (and) hors[es of the king of the land Meluḫḫa], forces without number. (i' 5'b) In the plain of [the city Elteke]h, [I fought] with them [and] defeated them. (ii' 1') [...] ... [... He] — Marduk-apla-[iddina] (II) (Merodach-baladan), whom I had defeated during my fir[st] campaign — (ii´ 5´) became frightened by the clangor of [my] mighty weapon[s] and fl[ed] to (the city) Nagī[te]-raqqi, which is in the midst of the…
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/Q003495/
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Transliteration
[... a]-⸢na⸣ an-⸢zil⸣-[li i-pu-šú] / [ip-làḫ ŠÀ-šú-nu] ⸢LUGAL.MEŠ-ni KUR⸣.[mu-ṣu-ri] / [ERIM.MEŠ GIŠ.PAN GIŠ].⸢GIGIR⸣.MEŠ ⸢ANŠE.KUR⸣.[RA.MEŠ] / [ša LUGAL KUR.me-luḫ-ḫa] e-mu-qí la ni-bi / [ik-te-ru-ni] i-na ta-mir-ti1 / [URU.al-ta-qu]-ú it-ti-šú-un2 / [am-da-ḫi-iṣ-ma] ⸢áš-ta-kan⸣ BAD₅.BAD₅-šú-un / [...] x [...] / [šu-ú m]⸢dAMAR⸣.UTU-IBILA-[SUM.NA] / ⸢ša⸣ ina a-lak ger-ri-ia maḫ-[re-e] / áš-ku-nu…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003495.
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/Q003495/..
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/Q003495/.
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