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Sennacherib 023
Translation · reference
High confidence(i 1) Sennacherib, great king, [strong] king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the fou[r] quarters (of the world), capable shepherd, favorite of the grea[t] gods, guar[dian of truth] who lov[es] justi[ce, (i 5) renders assis]tance, goes to the aid of the w[eak], (and) str[ives after] good deeds, perfect man, virile warrior, foremost of all rulers, the bridle that controls the insubmissive, (and) the one who strikes enemies with lightning: (i 9b) The god Aššur, the great mountain, granted to me unrivalled sovereignty and made my weapons greater than (those of) all who sit on (royal)…
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/Q003497/
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Transliteration
mdEN.ZU-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba LUGAL GAL ⸢LUGAL⸣ [dan-nu]1 / LUGAL kiš-šá-ti LUGAL ⸢KUR⸣ aš-šur.KI LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-[tim] / RE.É.UM it-pe-šú mi-gir DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.[MEŠ] / ⸢na⸣-[ṣir kit-ti] ⸢ra-ʾi⸣-[im] ⸢mi-šá⸣-[ri] / [e-piš ú-sa]-a-ti a-lik tap-pu-ut a-[ki-i] / ⸢sa⸣-[ḫi-ru] dam-qa-a-ti eṭ-lum gít-ma-⸢lum⸣ / zi-ka-ru qar-du a-šá-red kal ma-al-ki / rap-pu la-ʾi-iṭ la ma-gi-ri / mu-šab-ri-qu za-ma-a-ni…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003497.
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/Q003497/..
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/Q003497/.
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