Position in chronology
Sennacherib 025
Translation · reference
High confidence(i' 1') [...] ... [(...) (As for) the rest of his magnates, including Nabû]-šuma-iškun, [a son of Marduk-apla-iddina (II) (Merodach-baladan), who had raised their arms because they were terrified of] doing battle with me, I [captured them ali]ve [in the thick of battle]. (i' 6') [I b]rought back [all together the chariots along with their horses, whose drivers had been killed i]n the thick of (that) [mighty battle and which had themselves been released so that they galloped about on] their [ow]n. [When the second double-hour of the night had passed], I stopped [their slaughter]. (i' 11') [(As…
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/Q003499/
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Transliteration
[...] x x / [(...) si-it-ti LÚ.GAL.MEŠ-šú a-di mdMUATI]-⸢MU⸣-iš-kun / [DUMU mdAMAR.UTU-IBILA-SUM.NA ša la-pa-an] ⸢ta-ḫa⸣-zi-ia / [ip-la-ḫu id-ku-ú Á.II-šú-un bal]-⸢ṭu⸣-su-un / [ina MURUB₄ tam-ḫa-ri it-mu-ḫa] ⸢ŠU⸣.II-a-a / [GIŠ.GIGIR.MEŠ a-di ANŠE.KUR.RA.MEŠ-ši-na ša i]-⸢na⸣ qit-ru-ub / [ta-ḫa-zi dan-ni ra-ki-bu-šin] de-ku-ma / [ù ši-na muš-šu-ra-ma ra-ma]-⸢nu⸣-uš-šin / [it-ta-na-al-la-ka…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003499.
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/Q003499/..
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/Q003499/.
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