Position in chronology
Sennacherib 036
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [The god] Aššur, the great mountain, father of the gods, the one who decrees [fates, ..., who deli]berates (only) with himself; the gods Anu, Enlil, (and) E[a, ...] the designs of heaven and earth, who designates ... [...; the god Sîn (...)], the one who constantly renews himself, the pure god whose signs are inscrutab[le, ...], (5) the one who makes decisions, the one who makes [ast]rological signs [known; the god Šamaš, ...], great judge of the great gods, whose [lordly] splendor [overwhelms all of] the lands everywhere; the god Adad, canal inspector of heaven (and) earth, [...], 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/Q003510/
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Transliteration
[d]aš-šur KUR GAL a-⸢bu DINGIR.MEŠ⸣ mu-šim [ši-ma-ti ...] / [ma]-li-ku ram-ni-šú da-num dBAD dé-[a ...]1 / ú-ṣu-rat AN-e u KI-tim mu-ad-du-ú x [... d30 (...)] / e-deš-šu-ú DINGIR KÙ ša GISKIM-šú la il-lam-⸢ma⸣-[du ...] / pa-ri-is pur-se-e mu-⸢šak⸣-[lim ṣa]-ad-di d[UTU ...] / DI.KU₅.GAL DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ ša nam-ri-ir-⸢ri⸣ [be-lu-ti-šú? ...]2 / KUR.MEŠ ma-ti-tan dIŠKUR GÚ.GAL AN-e KI-⸢tim⸣ [...] /…
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sennacherib, edited by A. Kirk Grayson & Jamie Novotny (RINAP 3, 2012–2014). ORACC text Q003510.
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/Q003510/..
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/Q003510/.
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