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Sennacherib 034
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High confidence(1) Palace of Sennacherib, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, king of the four quarters (of the world), favorite of the great gods, wise prince, circumspect ruler, shepherd of people, (and) leader of a widespread population, I: (3b) The god Aššur, father of the gods, looked steadfastly upon me among all of the rulers and made my weapons greater than (those of) all who sit on (royal) daises. He gave me a just scepter that widens borders (and) he put in my hand a merciless rod to fell enemies. (6b) In a pitched battle, I overwhelmed like the Deluge Marduk-apla-iddina…
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/Q003508/
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Transliteration
É.GAL mdEN.ZU-ŠEŠ.MEŠ-eri-ba LUGAL GAL ⸢LUGAL dan-nu LUGAL ŠÚ LUGAL KUR aš-šur.KI LUGAL kib-rat LÍMMU-tim⸣1 / mi-gir DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ lu-li-mu er-šu ma-⸢al-ku pit-qu-du RE.É.UM ba-ḫu-la-a-ti⸣ / mut-tar-ru-ú UN.MEŠ rap-šá-a-ti a-na-ku d⸢aš-šur AD DINGIR.MEŠ i-na kul-lat ma-li-ki⸣2 / ke-niš IGI.BAR-ni-ma UGU gi-mir a-šib pa-rak-ki ú-⸢šar-ba-a GIŠ.TUKUL.MEŠ-ia id-di-nam⸣ / GIŠ.GIDRU i-šar-tu…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003508.
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/Q003508/..
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/Q003508/.
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